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

Coexistence and sequence, therefore, may be affirmed or denied not only between phenomena, but between noumena, or between a noumenon and phenomena.

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) by Mill, John Stuart

Back of all phenomena, or the outward show of things, there is always a noumenon in the unseen.

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

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 Falckenberg, Richard

The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only be a process of reasoning—which is a phenomenon.

From The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose