ALL meanings of noumenon
nou·me·non
N n - noun noumenon (in Kantian philosophy) a thing as it is in itself, as distinct from a thing as it is knowable by the senses through phenomenal attributes. 1
- noun plural noumenon the object, itself inaccessible to experience, to which a phenomenon is referred for the basis or cause of its sense content. 1
- noun plural noumenon a thing in itself, as distinguished from a phenomenon or thing as it appears. 1
- noun plural noumenon Kantianism. something that can be the object only of a purely intellectual, nonsensuous intuition. 1
- noun noumenon (in the philosophy of Kant) a thing as it is in itself, not perceived or interpreted, incapable of being known, but only inferred from the nature of experience 0
- noun noumenon the object of a purely intellectual intuition 0
- noun noumenon in Kantian philosophy, a thing as it is in itself, unable to be known through perception but postulated as the intelligible ground of a phenomenon 0