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Meanings of thing-in-itself in English
In Kantian philosophy, an object as it is, independent of observation, which one cannot know directly.
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Examples for "noumenon"
Examples for "noumenon"
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The so-called natural sciences, and their limits-Thephenomenon and the noumenon.
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What signified their endless pages about dualism and monism, about phenomenon and noumenon?
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The intuition gives the world, the phenomenon; the concept gives the noumenon, the Spirit.
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What, therefore, we call noumenon must be understood by us as such in a negative sense.
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The conception of a noumenon is therefore merely a limitative conception and therefore only of negative use.
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Aries Tottle's mode, in a word, was based on noumena; Hog's on phenomena.
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Phenomena and noumena and so on and so on.
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The various awe-compelling phenomena soon ceased to have any connection with the anthropomorphic noumena they had begotten.
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Then noumena, which are not in your minds when you are born, have no way of getting in-
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There is the world of appearance (phenomena), and there is the world of reality or substance (noumena).
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Do you suppose any man wants to hear what his sweetheart thinks about Space and Time and the Ding-an-sich?
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This interchange becomes evident when I regard this supreme being, which, relatively to the world, was absolutely (unconditionally) necessary, as a thing per se.
Usage of thing-in-itself in English
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Our models may get closer and closer, but we will never reach direct perception of reality's thing-in-itself.
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Thing-in-itself, or reality, lies behind appearances permanently beyond our ken.
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Thing-in-itself means thing cut off from all possible relationships.
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If only you knew what the Thing-in-itself was.
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Supposing-supposing the Transcendental Ego was the Thing-in-itself?
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Her reverie ran first into long, fascinating conversations about Space and Time and the Thing-in-itself, and the Transcendental Ego.
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Substance, the Thing-in-itself-Youwere It.
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Does Aunt Charlotte read Kant and Hegel and Schopenhauer, to find out whether the Thing-in-itself is mind or matter?
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Thing-in-Itself means Thing-Knowerless 17.
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But rather in the lap of Being, in the intransitory, in the concealed God, in the 'Thing-in-itself-THEREmust be their source, and nowhere else!
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Thing-in-itself through the time