noumenon
the object, itself inaccessible to experience, to which a phenomenon is referred for the basis or cause of its sense content.
a thing in itself, as distinguished from a phenomenon or thing as it appears.
Kantianism. something that can be the object only of a purely intellectual, nonsensuous intuition.
Origin of noumenon
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How to use noumenon in a sentence
There is the world of appearance (phenomena), and there is the world of reality or substance (noumena).
Theism or Atheism | Chapman CohenThe various awe-compelling phenomena soon ceased to have any connection with the anthropomorphic noumena they had begotten.
The Soul of the Far East | Percival LowellAll are agreed that to know things per se—noumena—we must know them through some other channel then experience.
Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers | Charles Bradlaugh, A. Collins, and J. WattsBut it is a doctrine of our author that these laws are true, and cannot but be known to be true, of Noumena likewise.
The Philosophy of the Conditioned | H. L. ManselBut Mr. Mill, as we have seen before, is not much at home when he gets among “noumena.”
The Philosophy of the Conditioned | H. L. Mansel
British Dictionary definitions for noumenon
/ (ˈnuːmɪnən, ˈnaʊ-) /
(in the philosophy of Kant) a thing as it is in itself, not perceived or interpreted, incapable of being known, but only inferred from the nature of experience: Compare phenomenon (def. 3) See also thing-in-itself
the object of a purely intellectual intuition
Origin of noumenon
1Derived forms of noumenon
- noumenal, adjective
- noumenalism, noun
- noumenalist, noun, adjective
- noumenality, noun
- noumenally, adverb
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