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Objects intuited but not seen
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noumena
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n. (en-irregular plural of: noumenon )
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Noumena is a melodic death metal band from Finland . The band's name comes from the word noumenon , a philosophical term used by Immanuel Kant . The band consists of five members: vocalist Antti Haapanen, guitarists Tuukka Tuomela and Ville Lamminaho, bass ...
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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)]
Usage examples of noumena.
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.