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
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)
We cannot think of a noumenon as a substance, for the notions of substance and quality have been declared to be only a scheme for the ordering of phenomena.
From An Introduction to Philosophy by Fullerton, George Stuart
The universe as metaphysical thing-in-itself, as noumenon, has an ethical meaning.
From Schopenhauer by Whittaker, Thomas
Way, more, to make his argument the more plausible, he entirely ignores in it that noumenon of which he speaks as underlying all phenomena, and uses each phenomenon as a separate existence.
From Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." by Bradlaugh, Charles
Those kinds of questions, and that kind of connection to the noumena of travel, would never arise from a downloaded file on a digital device.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2022
"I seek after noumena," repeated Chaffery with great satisfaction, and gesticulated with his hand, waving away everything but that.
From Love and Mr. Lewisham by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
The germ of the conception of what the philosopher speaks of as the noumena, or actualities, back of phenomena or appearances, had perhaps this crude beginning.
From A History of Science — Volume 1 by Williams, Edward Huntington
The difficulty arises from a confusion between the spheres of phenomena and noumena.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
Or, in other words, he shows that the postulation of phenomena necessitates the further postulation of noumena of which phenomena are the manifestations.
From A Candid Examination of Theism by Romanes, George John
