The latter makes much sense as the wholly predicateless “thing-in-itself.”. From Wordnik.com. [Bush Slanders Freedom « Antiwar.com Blog] Reference
They also serve who only stand and wait thief in the night, like a thing-in-itself. From Wordnik.com. [Entry Index: Super Bowl to Tippecanoe and Tyler too] Reference
In other words, experience is only a phenomenon; it is not knowledge of the thing-in-itself. From Wordnik.com. [On Human Nature] Reference
Kant held that we cannot know a thing-in-itself as it is, but only as our mind constitutes it. From Wordnik.com. [Kant, Immanuel] Reference
Maybe you are making some metaphysical distinction between the thing-in-itself and how we perceive it?. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny and a Book] Reference
And education is in deep trouble, not just as a thing-in-itself, but as an indicator of our racial future. From Wordnik.com. [Farai Chideya: Educational Opportunity in the Age of Obama] Reference
On the contrary, it has its roots in the thing-in-itself, in the will which is the essence of each individual. From Wordnik.com. [On Human Nature] Reference
As we will see below, Schopenhauer sometimes characterized the thing-in-itself in a way reminiscent of panentheism. From Wordnik.com. [Arthur Schopenhauer] Reference
Schopenhauer's position on whether the thing-in-itself is Will consequently presents some interpretive difficulties. From Wordnik.com. [Arthur Schopenhauer] Reference
It is not the thing-in-itself, but only the phenomenon presented in the form of time; and therefore with a beginning and an end. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Pessimism] Reference
A thing-in-itself is an object as it would appear to us if we did not have to approach it under the conditions of space and time. From Wordnik.com. [thing-in-itself] Reference
This is opposed to saying that the thing-in-itself causes our sensations, as if we were referring to one domino striking another. From Wordnik.com. [Arthur Schopenhauer] Reference
Now what in the world could it possibly mean to say that it is "impossible" to interpret a literary work as autonomous, a "thing-in-itself"?. From Wordnik.com. [Principles of Literary Criticism] Reference
Will is, according to him, the fundamental reality of the world, the thing-in-itself; and its objectivation is what is presented in phenomena. From Wordnik.com. [Religion] Reference
Will, as the thing-in-itself, is the foundation of all being; it is part and parcel of every creature, and the permanent element in everything. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Pessimism] Reference
Schopenhauer thought that Hegel had strayed from the Kantian truth that there is a thing-in-itself beyond appearance, and that the Will is such a thing. From Wordnik.com. [Religion and Morality] Reference
In fact this definition is implied in saying that the thing-in-itself is the indeterminate, utterly without form and so without content — or in saying that. From Wordnik.com. [Hegel on Buddhism] Reference
In regarding nature as completely intelligible, Weyl had abolished the thing-in-itself and so promoted the identity of self and non-self, the great error of the. From Wordnik.com. [Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity] Reference
It is tempting to equate an appearance with the foundationalist's sense datum, taking the thing-in-itself as the unknowable external cause of this mental entity. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
Although, from an empirical point of view, this is the most palpable impossibility — nay, absurdity — it is nevertheless perfectly true of the thing-in-itself. From Wordnik.com. [On Human Nature] Reference
In contrast the thing-in-itself is the object independent of our knowledge of it; it is not a second object, and does not, indeed could not, cause an appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
So in terms of its degree of generality, the mystical state of mind seems to be located at a level of universality comparable to that of the Will as thing-in-itself. From Wordnik.com. [Arthur Schopenhauer] Reference
In the second volume of The World as Will and Representation (1844), however, he addresses the above complication, and qualifies his claim that the thing-in-itself is Will. From Wordnik.com. [Arthur Schopenhauer] Reference
Science, it seems to us, postulates in Energy an a-logical, unextended, real thing-in-itself in terms of which the phenomena of Physics can be adequately and quantifiably stated. From Wordnik.com. [Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge] Reference
The thing-in-itself drops out as having no meaning. From Wordnik.com. [The Approach to Philosophy] Reference
Will is the thing-in-itself, the essence of the world. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics] Reference
It will no longer attain only the phantom of an unattainable thing-in-itself. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution créatrice. English] Reference
The fountain and support of it is the will to live, or the thing-in-itself, which we are. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics] Reference
It was not the "thing-in-itself," it was only the refraction of it through our atmosphere. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution créatrice. English] Reference
The thing-in-itself must, according to Kant, be free from all forms associated with knowing. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics] Reference
The illusion comes when we confuse our experience of the world with the physical reality, the thing-in-itself. From Wordnik.com. [Dream Manifesto] Reference
Artists care for the thing-in-itself; Potterites regard things as railway trains, always going somewhere, getting somewhere. From Wordnik.com. [Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract] Reference
But he seems to be quite sure that the thing-in-itself works constantly, and consequently always gives us only what our powers can master. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference
On the contrary, the Platonic idea is necessarily object, something known and thus different from the thing-in-itself, which cannot be apprehended. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics] Reference
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