Antonyms for noumenon

Grammar : Noun

Spell : noo-muh-non

Phonetic Transcription : ˈnu məˌnɒn

Definition 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

Synonyms for noumenon

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