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

In either case the noumenon, the Ding an sich, the thing in itself, escaped.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar

I do not pretend to demonstrate anything, nor do I feel much concern, about any unknowable noumenon which never reveals itself in my consciousness.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

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

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