What is the meaning of Noumenon?

  • (n.) The of itself unknown and unknowable rational object or thing in itself, which is distinguished from the phenomenon through which it is apprehended by the senses, and by which it is interpreted and understood; -- so used in the philosophy of Kant and his followers.
  • (n.) The of itself unknown and unknowable rational object or thing in itself, which is distinguished from the phenomenon through which it is apprehended by the senses, and by which it is interpreted and understood; -- so used in the philosophy of Kant and his followers.
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