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

Kant left nothing of the material world but an indescribable noumenon, which did not even exist in space.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various

By Ontology we may designate the standing controversies of the intellectual powers—perception, innate ideas, nominalism versus realism, and noumenon versus phenomenon.

From Practical Essays by Bain, Alexander

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

Faith cure is dependence upon the human mind itself, upon the noumenon, instead of the phenomenon.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis