noumenal

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The first is the noumenal, the last the phenomenal As being is the source of not-being (§ 40), by identifying one's self with being one attains to all that is not-being, i.e. to all that exists.

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  1. Of or pertaining to a noumenon. He holds that the phenomenal world must be distinguished from the noumenal, or world of things in themselves. Sir W. Hamilton. The inner world which we know is like the outer, phenomenal, not noumenal. E. Caird, Philos. of Kant, p. 253.

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  • As Harman goes on to argue, unlike the enigma of the Kantian noumenal realm-which fundamentally precludes human understanding-Lovecraft's world is terrifying precisely because of the incursion of "finite malignant beings" in a finite world —  Side Effects
  • The reversal from a rational infinity to an irrational finitude draws Lovecraft's own creatures into the everyday world, conferring upon them a spatio-temporal existence lacking in Kant's noumenal sphere. —  Side Effects
  • To be fair, the Kantian perspective on the question, with its phenomenal and noumenal aspects of the self, suggests that the real self is unknowable, at least to philosophy and self-inspection. —  Darwiniana
  • Is the phenomenenal disconnected from the noumenal ...? an —  Not PC
  • Since I think there's a noumenal truth, I think all the ordinary "truthes" we deal in are just pragmatically true for the moment and don't correspond to the absolute truth which is beyond all language … —  GetReligion
 

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