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

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

Still, the proposition as commonly understood does not assert that alone; it asserts that the Thing in itself, the noumenon Socrates, was existing, and doing or experiencing those various facts during the same time.

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart

The fetich of the savage is the noumenon of the Greek, the God of the theologian, the First Cause of the metaphysician, the Unknowable of Spencer.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green

Kant left nothing of the material world but an indescribable noumenon, which did not even exist in space.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various