noumenal
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- nonnoumenal adjective
- nonnoumenally adverb
- noumenalism noun
- noumenalist noun
- noumenality noun
- noumenally adverb
Etymology
Origin of noumenal
First recorded in 1795–1805; noumen(on) + -al 1
Example Sentences
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It lies in the complete suppression of all explanation of the noumenal object in terms borrowed from the language of sensation.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred
Mill further holds that properly speaking there is no noumenal Ego.
From Five Years of Theosophy by Various
No shekinah remains within for a mysterious "conscience" to inject into this fact-world insights drawn from a higher world of noumenal, or absolute, reality.
From Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Jones, Rufus Matthew
Still, we can neither know the absolute nor the noumenal for the reason that our mind is limited to relations.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green
Mr. James demonstrates the supreme absurdity of the notion of noumenal existence, or of any created existence which has life in se.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 by Various
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