Meaning & use
Noumena
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Things or objects as they exist in themselves, independent of human perception or experience (plural of noumenon).
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Kant argued that noumena can never be directly known, only inferred.
Philosophers still debate whether noumena have any meaningful reality distinct from phenomena.
A note on using this word
A key term in Immanuel Kant's philosophy, contrasted with 'phenomena,' the things as they appear to our senses.
Words with a similar meaning
things-in-themselves
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Words with an opposite meaning
phenomena
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