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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

Kant left nothing of the material world but an indescribable noumenon, which did not even exist in space.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various

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

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 Charles Hodge

The transcendent questions concerning the noumenon of things are unanswerable; we know ourselves, even, only as phenomena!

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

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

"I seek after noumena," repeated Chaffery with great satisfaction, and gesticulated with his hand, waving away everything but that.

From Love and Mr. Lewisham by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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

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




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