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

Faith cure is dependence upon the human mind itself, upon the noumenon, instead of the phenomenon.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis

The universe as metaphysical thing-in-itself, as noumenon, has an ethical meaning.

From Schopenhauer by Whittaker, Thomas

The transcendent questions concerning the noumenon of things are unanswerable; we know ourselves, even, only as phenomena!

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard

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