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

Even if he does not know it as a noumenon he can investigate it as a phenomenon.

From Thoughts on Religion by Gore, Charles

And this meaning is retained in the Kantian philosophy, in which the noumenon is identical with the Ding an sich.

From The Philosophy of the Conditioned by Mansel, Henry Longueville

The "colligation" of the facts, to use Whewell's phrase, is not a phenomenon, but a noumenon.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

They wholly depend for their significance upon the laws of thought and the correspondence that exists between the spiritual and material worlds, between the subject and object of our consciousness, the noumenon and phenomenon.

From Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance by Sepharial