noumenon

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Glassley tries also to grasp something beyond: the noumenon, an ineffable inner reality in things that cannot be discerned by the senses.

From Nature • Feb. 5, 2018

In the philosophy of Kant, phenomenon means an object as we envisage or represent it to ourselves, in opposition to the noumenon, or a thing as it is in itself.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

They wrote against substance assumed as the "noumenon lying underneath all phenomena—the substratum supporting all qualities—the something in which all accidents inhere."

From Heresy: Its Utility And Morality A Plea And A Justification by Bradlaugh, Charles

The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only be a process of reasoning—which is a phenomenon.

From The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose

It is a noumenon and belongs properly to the unknowable—that is to say, according to the sense in which it is understood.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)