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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 which it is apprehended by the senses, and by which it is interpreted and understood; -- so used in the philosophy of Kant and his followers.
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 suffix -menos.
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 by practical reason but existing in a condition which is in principle unknowable and unexperienceable.
WordNet
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)]
Wikipedia
The noumenon is a posited object or event that is known (if at all) without the use of ordinary sense-perception. The term noumenon is generally used in contrast with, or in relation to phenomenon, which refers to anything that can be apprehended by, or is an object of the senses. Much of modern philosophy has generally been skeptical of the possibility of knowledge independent of the senses, and Immanuel Kant gave this point of view its canonical expression: that the noumenal world may exist, but it is completely unknowable through human sensation. In Kantian philosophy, the unknowable noumenon is often linked to the unknowable "thing-in-itself" (in Kant's German, Ding an sich), although how to characterize the nature of the relationship is a question yet open to some controversy.
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 aspect, so that noumenon means more exactly “a thing that is currently being continuously known.” It can mean specifically:
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.