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

Reason and revelation declare that God is both noumenon and phenomena,—the first and only cause.

From Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Eddy, Mary Baker

Behind the phenomena of human history, the noumenon is the Human Spirit, moving in accordance with its own necessities and cyclic laws.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth

We cannot think of a noumenon as a substance, for the notions of substance and quality have been declared to be only a scheme for the ordering of phenomena.

From An Introduction to Philosophy by Fullerton, George Stuart

Still, the proposition 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 7th Edition, Vol. I by Mill, John Stuart