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noumenon

[ noo-muh-non ]

noun

plural noumena
  1. the object, itself inaccessible to experience, to which a phenomenon is referred for the basis or cause of its sense content.
  2. a thing in itself, as distinguished from a phenomenon or thing as it appears.
  3. Kantianism. something that can be the object only of a purely intellectual, nonsensuous intuition.


noumenon

/ ˈnuːmɪnən; ˈnaʊ- /

noun

  1. (in the philosophy of Kant) a thing as it is in itself, not perceived or interpreted, incapable of being known, but only inferred from the nature of experience Compare phenomenon See also thing-in-itself
  2. the object of a purely intellectual intuition
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

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  • ˌԴdzܳˈԲٲ, noun
  • ˈԴdzܳԲ, adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of noumenon1

1790–1800; < Greek ԴǴúԴDz a thing being perceived, noun use of neuter of present participle passive of ԴDZî to perceive; akin to nous
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of noumenon1

C18: via German from Greek: thing being thought of, from noein to think, perceive; related to nous mind
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Those kinds of questions, and that kind of connection to the noumena of travel, would never arise from a downloaded file on a digital device.

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Kant’s term “noumenon” refers to a “thing in itself”—Ding an sich—an objective reality that will always be inaccessible to human perception.

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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.

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The deeper our knowledge of things goes, the more we see the perfect conformity of the apparent to the real, the more faithfully do phenomena translate noumena.

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They wrote against substance assumed as the “noumenon lying underneath all phenomena—the substratum supporting all qualities—the something in which all accidents inhere.”

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