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
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
The "colligation" of the facts, to use Whewell's phrase, is not a phenomenon, but a noumenon.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto
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 John Stuart Mill
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
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
Now what may we affirm of noumena without departing from a scientific or objective mode of philosophising?
From A Candid Examination of Theism by George John Romanes
In the first place, all noumena and transcendent reals are to be rejected as means of explanation, and definition is to be wholly in terms of experienced elements, as experienced.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
The only meeting point of different minds is found in the inaccessible domain of the noumena.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet
Then noumena, which are not in your minds when you are born, have no way of getting in—” “I deny—” Kreis started to interrupt.
From Martin Eden by Jack London