[thing-in-it-self] 
[thingz-in-th
uhm-selvz] . Kantianism. | reality as it is apart from experience; what remains to be postulated after space, time, and all the categories of the understanding are assigned to consciousness. Compare noumenon (def. 3). |
| nou·me·non (nōō'mə-nŏn') n. pl. nou·me·na (-nə) In the philosophy of Kant, an object as it is in itself independent of the mind, as opposed to a phenomenon. Also called thing-in-itself. [German, from Greek nooumenon, from neuter present passive participle of noein, to perceive by thought, from nous, mind.] nou'men·al (-mə-nəl) adj. |
| thing-in-it·self (thĭng'ĭn-ĭt-sělf') n. pl. things-in-them·selves (thĭngz'ĭn-thěm-sělvz') Philosophy See noumenon. [Translation of German Ding an sich.] |
A notion in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. A thing-in-itself is an object as it would appear to us if we did not have to approach it under the conditions of space and time.