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Grammar : Noun
Spell : noo-muh-non
Phonetic Transcription : ˈnu məˌnɒn

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Définition of noumenon

Origin :
  • 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.
  • As in soul : noun psyche, inspiration, energy
Example sentences :
  • Being a "noumenon," it is not a phenomenon; being a "thing in itself," it is not what things are to us.
  • Extract from : « The Church of St. Bunco » by Gordon Clark
  • The "colligation" of the facts, to use Whewell's phrase, is not a phenomenon, but a noumenon.
  • Extract from : « Logic, Inductive and Deductive » by William Minto
  • What signified their endless pages about dualism and monism, about phenomenon and noumenon?
  • Extract from : « Birthright » by T.S. Stribling
  • But then there is the Ding an sich, the Noumenon, or Kantian equivalent for the substance of the soul.
  • Extract from : « Hume » by T.H. Huxley
  • He called it the "noumenon," the "real correlate of matter," and pluralized it as "things in themselves."
  • Extract from : « The Church of St. Bunco » by Gordon Clark
  • But he insisted, as firmly as Herbert Spencer has since done, that the "noumenon" is "unknown and unknowable."
  • Extract from : « The Church of St. Bunco » by Gordon Clark
  • The conception of a noumenon is therefore merely a limitative conception and therefore only of negative use.
  • Extract from : « The Critique of Pure Reason » by Immanuel Kant
  • If we wish to call this object a noumenon, because the representation of it is non-sensuous, we are at liberty to do so.
  • Extract from : « The Critique of Pure Reason » by Immanuel Kant
  • The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only be a process of reasoning—which is a phenomenon.
  • Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
  • Humanity is ever seeking the Reality—the Noumenon, which we intuitively postulate as behind the phenomena of Nature.
  • Extract from : « Sex=The Unknown Quantity » by Ali Nomad

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