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

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 Hodge, Charles

Biology as such has of course nothing to do with "the Ultimate Reality behind manifestations" or with the "implied noumenon."

From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)

Way, more, to make his argument the more plausible, he entirely ignores in it that noumenon of which he speaks as underlying all phenomena, and uses each phenomenon as a separate existence.

From Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." by Bradlaugh, Charles