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noumenon::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | thing-in-itself |
| Type of | cognitive content, content, mental object |
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Art was considered especially prestigious, as it was considered to represent the noumenon.
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It is for this reason that Schopenhauer identifies the noumenon with what we call our will.
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Nietzsche's criticism of the noumenon can be found, for example, in his Beyond Good and Evil.
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Noumenon came into its modern usage through Immanuel Kant.
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Schopenhauer departed from Kant in his description of the relationship between the phenomenon and the noumenon.
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Sometimes used loosely as a synonym of noumenon.
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What things are in themselves, other than being appearances, or noumenon, are completely unknowable by any animal or human mind.
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Kant was heavily influenced by Leibniz in this part of his philosophy, in which phenomenon and noumenon serve as interrelated technical terms.
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Some commentators suggest that Schopenhauer claimed that the noumenon, or thing-in-itself, was the basis for Schopenhauer's concept of the will.
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- The intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception
- The noumenon (/u02C8nu0252uu02D0mu1D7Bnu0252n/) 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...
- In the philosophy of 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
- (noumenal) Of or pertaining to the noumenon or the realm of things as they are in themselves
- In Kant, the ultimate reality, or Thing-in-Itself, which can be conceived by thought, but cannot be perceived in experience.
- [from Greek noeo to perceive with the mind, think; cf nous] Plural Noumena. An object perceived by the mind apart from the senses, an object of cognition. ...
- In Kant's philosophy, the unknowable thing in itself, as distinct from the object of experience.
- According to Kant, that which exists objectively, as opposed to that which our perception leads us to think exists (the phenomenon, or the "thing-as-it-is-to-me" rather than the "thing-as-it-is."); an object of thought.
- To apprehend, conceive; in Immanuel Kant's philosophy, an object of purely intellectual intuition, devoid of all phenomenal attributes.
