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)

But don't you think, Ont," Upt replied, "that you are confusing the noumenon with the phenomenon?

From The Unthinking Destroyer by Terry, W. E.

For the purposes, then, both of science and of ordinary life, we do reason from phenomenon to noumenon, from appearance to reality, from attribute to substance; and our reasoning justifies itself.

From Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. by Hill, J. Arthur

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