Meaning Of The Word Noumenon

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What's The Definition Of Noumenon?

noumenon in American English
in Kantian philosophy, a thing as it is in itself, unable to be known through perception but postulated as the intelligible ground of a phenomenon
noun: the object, itself inaccessible to experience, to which a phenomenon is referred for the basis or cause of its sense content

noumenon in British English
noun: (in the philosophy of Kant) a thing as it is in itself, not perceived or interpreted, incapable of being known, but only inferred from the nature of experience

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