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noumenon

noun
/ˈnuːmənɒn/UK/ˈnumənɑn/US

Etymology

From German Noumenon, from Ancient Greek νοούμενον (nooúmenon, “thing that is known”), passive present participle of νοέω (noéō, “I know”).

  1. derived from νοούμενον
  2. borrowed from Noumenon

Definitions

  1. A thing as it is independent of any conceptualization or perception by the human mind,…

    A thing as it is independent of any conceptualization or perception by the human mind, postulated by practical reason but existing in a condition which is in principle unknowable and unexperienceable.

    • We have no specific concept of the noumenon, but think of it merely as whatever the object may be apart from the manner in which our knowledge exhibits it.
    • That, we have seen, is what prevents the two truths from collapsing into an appearance/reality or phenomenon/noumenon distinction.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for noumenon. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA