There is nothing we can say about a "noumenal" world -- a world as it really is beyond the categories of empirical experience. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
He argued that humans only experience the 'phenomena' our senses provide, and therefore we cannot know the 'real' or "noumenal" world. From Wordnik.com. [CSK: Redux] Reference
Reality is a broader term, although it seems that the reality to which Tillich or Kaufman points is not necessarily "noumenal" in a Kantian sense. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: The reality of the symbol of God.] Reference
Gould: the noumenal and the phenomenal are separate. From Wordnik.com. [Dawkins Tries to Find God] Reference
It was his noumenal self; the part of the self in which self-awareness resides. From Wordnik.com. [Orphans of Chaos] Reference
We ourselves are both noumena and phenomena: there is both a noumenal self and an empirical self. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
I am a single entity, but whereas my noumenal aspect wants to die, my phenomenal aspect dearly wants to live. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob's Ladder]
The purpose of a teaching is to help a student to know a reality, no matter whether it is phenomenal or noumenal. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
The noumenal Real is such as to be authentically experienced as a range of both theistic and nontheistic phenomena. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
At once, I could see my monad, my noumenal self, hovering in the fourth dimension above and inside my nervous system. From Wordnik.com. [Orphans of Chaos] Reference
Yet Kant also indicated ways of meaningfully speaking of the noumenal, even though not in terms of theoretical reason. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Buber] Reference
But our language can have no purchase on a postulated noumenal reality which is not even partly formed by human concepts. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
Like Kant's noumenal realm, the external world is outside the immediacy of consciousness; it is, in a word, transcendent. From Wordnik.com. [Hermann Weyl] Reference
These two realms are disjoint: none of the phenomenal objects is a noumenon, and none of the noumenal objects is a phenomenon. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
The noumenal realm, however, is not thus dependent on us but is also such that we have no intuition, no direct experience of it. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
His expe - rience of morality, therefore, is an experience of obli - gation to the moral law within his deeper “noumenal” self. From Wordnik.com. [FREE WILL AND DETERMINISM] Reference
Kant's view that time is a mere form of sensibility, applicable legitimately only to the phenomenal, but not to the noumenal realm. From Wordnik.com. [TIME] Reference
Here Kuhn faced a difficulty parallel to Kant's appeal to a human-independent noumenal world to which we have no articulate access. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific Revolutions] Reference
Some have understood Kant to be making a metaphysical (or ontological) claim when he distinguishes between noumenal and phenomenal worlds. From Wordnik.com. [Kant and Hume on Morality] Reference
But then, on that noumenal evening, sitting with him on her verandah after he had spent the afternoon fixing her tiny white van, she had said yes. From Wordnik.com. [Tears Of The Giraffe]
However, there was also the noumenal world, as Kant said, in which they freely proposed and strove after their own goals, endlessly like Goethe's Faust. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
What follows is a new discussion of Kant's conception of our freedom and worries about our freedom being apparently restricted only to the noumenal realm. From Wordnik.com. [Friedrich Albert Lange] Reference
This need felt by the post-Kantians for having a contentful concept of the “noumenal” or the “in itself” can also be seen from the inverse perspective. From Wordnik.com. [Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel] Reference
Kant takes us to be both free and determined: free insofar as we are members of the noumenal world, determined insofar as we are members of the world of sense. From Wordnik.com. [Kant and Hume on Morality] Reference
Kant's idea of our knowledge as restricted to the world as it is for us requires us to have a concept of the noumenal as that which cannot be known, the concept. From Wordnik.com. [Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel] Reference
The second, the noumenal realm, consists of “entities of the understanding to which no objects of experience can ever correspond”, that is, things-in-themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Continuity and Infinitesimals] Reference
Both noumenal and phenomenal virtue reflect the agent's commitment to morality, but purity of motivation is an essential feature only of noumenal virtue (Rel 6: 47). From Wordnik.com. [Kant and Hume on Morality] Reference
But there is a tendency of the human mind to transform this material object into a noumenal object that is thought somehow to exist apart from all sensory appearances. From Wordnik.com. [John Stuart Mill] Reference
All objects are really noumenal objects, and talk about the phenomena is just a picturesque way of talking about how the noumena, the only things there are, appear to us. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
However, there is also a noumenal world (The Real '), "which is not even partly formed by human concepts," and as a result it is outside the scope of our cognitive capacities. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
The first is the noumenal, the last the phenomenal. '. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology] Reference
Comte was never willing to face the fact that the very existence of knowledge has a noumenal as well as. From Wordnik.com. [An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant] Reference
I would add that this anterior noumenal reality is paradoxically the source, center, and destination of the phenomenal world. From Wordnik.com. [One Cosmos] Reference
It lies in the complete suppression of all explanation of the noumenal object in terms borrowed from the language of sensation. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps] Reference
So, from your own point of view, suppose a mind-stuff -- logos --- a noumenal cosmic light such as is shadowed in the fourth gospel. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3] Reference
The pure and the practical reason are the faculties of man for dealing with these two worlds respectively, the phenomenal and the noumenal. From Wordnik.com. [An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant] Reference
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