Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to a noumenon.
Wiktionary
- adj. philosophy Of or pertaining to the noumenon or the realm of things as they are in themselves.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Metaph.) Of or pertaining to the noumenon; real; -- opposed to
phenomenal .
Examples
“Mr. James demonstrates the supreme absurdity of the notion of noumenal existence, or of any created existence which has life _in se_.”
“The noumenal is the great mystery - things as they really are.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“He argued that humans only experience the 'phenomena' our senses provide, and therefore we cannot know the 'real' or "noumenal" world.”
“There is nothing we can say about a "noumenal" world -- a world as it really is beyond the categories of empirical experience.”
“Reality is a broader term, although it seems that the reality to which Tillich or Kaufman points is not necessarily "noumenal" in a Kantian sense.”
“That God reposed alone through all the past eternities, but roused some day and sent forth a shout, or six successive shouts, and spoke things out of nothing into "noumenal" existence, were absurd enough, to use Mr. James's nervous English, "to nourish a standing army of Tom Paines into annual fatness.”
“Such a proposal is distinct from pantheistic notions which equate God with the natural world, because D'Espagnat relegates the natural world - the world of space, time and matter - to what Kant referred to as the 'phenomenal' world, the world produced by the modus operandi of our minds upon the noumenal world.”
“In theological terms, D'Espagnat's epistemological structural realism then enables him to advocate a pantheistic, noumenal concept of God.”
“In other words, God is equated with the noumenal world, the unknowable world beyond our empirical experience and observation.”
“Kant seems to nod in this direction with his (dubious) noumenal/phenomenal split, but he was quite firm that we cannot apprehend the noumena.”
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Adjectival Arcana
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seanahan Kant is perplexing in all seasons, which makes sense, given that he is known for critiquing the idea of reasonable arguments. Jun 15, 2009
vanishedone See noumenon, about one year ago.
And so the Great Cycle of Wordie continues: 'tis the season to be perplexed by Kant. Jun 14, 2009
seanahan Even reading the definition I'm not sure quite what this means. Jun 14, 2009
mollusque . . . a stylized memoir dealing with the arbored boyhood and ardent youth of a great thinker who by the end of the book tackles the itchiest of all noumenal mysteries.
--Vladimir Nabokov, 1974, Look at the Harlequins! p. 231 Jun 13, 2009