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The intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception
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noumenon
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1796, "object of intellectual intuition" (opposed to a phenomenon ), term introduced by Kant, from Greek noumenon "that which is perceived," neuter passive present participle of noein "to apprehend, perceive by the mind" (from noos "mind"). With passive ...
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Noumenon , plur. Noumena , is a modern philosophic word used in many languages. It is borrowed without change from the Greek present middle and passive participle of the contract verb, noein ( no-e-ein ), “to know.” The present participle has a continuous ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Noumenon \Nou"me*non\ (nou"m[-e]*n[o^]n), n. [NL. fr. Gr. ? the thing perceived, p. pr. pass. of ? to perceive, ? the mind.] (Metaph.) The of itself unknown and unknowable rational object, or thing in itself, which is distinguished from the phenomenon through ...
WordNet
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n. the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception [syn: thing-in-itself ] [also: noumena (pl)]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context philosophy English) In the philosophy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant (1724-1804) and those whom he influenced, a thing as it is independent of any conceptualization or perception by the human mind; a thing-in-itself, postulated ...
Usage examples of noumenon.
If it does not apply to noumenon, does it at least apply to phenomena?
Space-time, the Second Level of Complexity, proclaimed its noumenon in the whine of stars, the rumble of planets, the transcendent crackle and gush of the uncoiling sun.
He will have attained in short to the knowledge of a noumenon, and of the only knowable noumenon.
Well, it was you who mentioned the noumenon and the phenomenon aspect of things.
It struck me curiously to come to the cataract, and be obliged to leave my boat at the foot of the first fall, and hire another above the second,--a forcible reminder that I was travelling backwards, from the circumference to the centre from which that circumference had been produced, faintly feeling my way along a tide of phenomena to the noumenon supporting them.
But what that something is, what is the noumenon which underlies the phenomenon, it is impossible for us to know.
For Hellenistic thinkers, phenomena were defined as things, events, and processes that can be seen, in contrast to noumena, which were thought to be things as they are in themselves.
Thus, the real constitution of the mind, which Kant assumed to reside in the inaccessible realm of noumena, is now thought to lie hidden in the brain.
But while this dualistic construct of phenomena versus noumena has done little to hamper the physical sciences, it has contributed to the stifling of introspection as a means to exploring the mind.
Why could he not get in touch with the Ding an sich, the Kantian noumenon?
The fundamental particles of matter the strings and infons and other noumena fell out of the primeval cosmic energy like snowflakes crystallizing from a cloud.