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 traces, by the process of contemplation as it were, the relation of man, "the known," the manifested, the phenomenon, to "the unknown," the unmanifested, the noumenon.

From Five Years of Theosophy by Various

They wholly depend for their significance upon the laws of thought and the correspondence that exists between the spiritual and material worlds, between the subject and object of our consciousness, the noumenon and phenomenon.

From Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance by Sepharial

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 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