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
It is a noumenon and belongs properly to the unknowable—that is to say, according to the sense in which it is understood.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)
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
He contents himself with saying we must acknowledge the reality of an unknown something which is the cause of all things,—the noumenon of all phenomena.
From What is Darwinism? by Hodge, Charles
In theology the fundamental problems of ontological philosophy were faced; the relationship of unity to multiplicity, of noumenon to phenomena, of God to man.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
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
"The distinction 290 of objects into phenomena and noumena, i.e., into things that for us exist, and things that for us do not exist, is an Irish bull in philosophy," said Heine.
From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir
Aries Tottle's mode, in a word, was based on noumena; Hog's on phenomena.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Poe, Edgar Allan
Or, in other words, so far as human consciousness is concerned, noumena must be regarded as absolute.
From A Candid Examination of Theism by Romanes, George John
My reason is no infallible plummet to sound the sea of phenomena and touch noumena.
From Beulah by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)