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

But don't you think, Ont," Upt replied, "that you are confusing the noumenon with the phenomenon?

From The Unthinking Destroyer by Terry, W. E.

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

In theology the fundamental problems of ontological philosophy were faced; the relationship of unity to multiplicity, of noumenon to phenomena, of God to man.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various

Now this necessity, it is objectivity itself; it is the only noumenon that we are authorised to seek behind phenomena in Nature, and behind the manifestations of pure reason in spirit.

From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Sabatier, Auguste