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noumenon

[noo-muh-non] / ˈnu məˌnɒn /


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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 Charles Francis Stocking

But what that something is, what is the noumenon which underlies the phenomenon, it is impossible for us to know.

From What is Darwinism? by Charles Hodge

For the purposes, then, both of science and of ordinary life, we do reason from phenomenon to noumenon, from appearance to reality, from attribute to substance; and our reasoning justifies itself.

From Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. by J. Arthur Hill

Coexistence and sequence, therefore, may be affirmed or denied not only between phenomena, but between noumena, or between a noumenon and phenomena.

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) by John Stuart Mill

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

Beyond objects of experience, and therefore with regard to things as noumena, all positive knowledge was rightly disclaimed for speculative reason.

From The Critique of Practical Reason by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott

Does Mr. Mill really suppose that all noumena are self-existent?

From The Philosophy of the Conditioned by Henry Longueville Mansel

We leave the world of noumena and enter that of phenomena.

From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet

Consequently, when I say of beings in the world of sense that they are created, I so far regard them as noumena.

From The Critique of Practical Reason by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott




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