noumenal

Adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to the noumenon; real; -- opposed to phenomenal.

Antonyms

Examples

One of the most important revelations about a period comes in its theory of language, for that informs us whether language is viewed as a bridge to the noumenal or as a body of fictions convenient for grappling with transitory phenomena. Richard Weaver

It forced Kant to come up with his theory of noumenal objects as unverifiable but understandable extensions of our immediate sensory experience constructed according to the inherent schemae of our understanding. Source: Internet

Kant imports Plato's high esteem of individual sovereignty to his considerations of moral and noumenal freedom, as well as to God. Source: Internet

The notion of the noumenal can only function as a heuristic of reason, not as an actual something to be experienced by contingent beings. Source: Internet

The noumenal world for Kant is the way "things in themselves" might appear to a being of uncontingent reason (i.e. "God"). Source: Internet

Thus we can conceive of a "noumenal" world (noumenal meaning "object of thought") which exists only as a heuristic for our cognitive capacities and not as something directly accessible to experience. Source: Internet

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