Meaning & use
Noumenal
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Relating to a thing as it is in itself, independent of human perception or experience, as opposed to how it appears to the senses.
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Kant argued that the noumenal world can never be directly known, only inferred.
Philosophers still debate whether the noumenal realm has any meaningful content at all.
A note on using this word
Central to Immanuel Kant's philosophy, contrasting the unknowable 'noumenon' (thing-in-itself) with the 'phenomenon' (thing as experienced).
Words with an opposite meaning
phenomenal
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