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ding an sich

[ ding ahn zikh ]

noun

, German.
, plural ding·e an sich [ding, -, uh, ahn , zikh].


Ding an sich

/ dɪŋ an zɪç; dɪŋ æn sɪk /

noun

  1. philosophy the thing in itself
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Example Sentences

Kant’s term “noumenon” refers to a “thing in itself”—Ding an sich—an objective reality that will always be inaccessible to human perception.

We’ve arrived at what Immanuel Kant called the “Ding an sich” — the thing itself.

In the eighteenth century, the philosopher Immanuel Kant argued that we can never have access to the Ding an sich, the unfiltered “thing-in-itself ” of objective reality.

From Salon

To this Hegel, long since, has replied: If you know all the qualities of a thing, you know the thing itself; nothing remains but the fact that the said thing exists without us; and when your senses have taught you that fact, you have grasped the last remnant of the thing in itself, Kant's celebrated unknowable Ding an sich.

V. appends a note, �Apparently the Essence of Life, the Ding an Sich of Kant, and the Wille of Schopenhauer, the Platonic Idea, the abiding type of the perishable individuality; possibly, however, the Vedantic ‹self› is meant.�

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