an object considered transcendentally apart from all the conditions under which a subject can gain knowledge of it. Hence the thing in itself is, by definition, unknowable. Sometimes used loosely as a synonym of noumenon. (Cf. appearance.)
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(from the article `metaphysics`) ...Thus, it is possible to be certain of the world in its general structure but only insofar as it is an experienced, or phenomenal, world—that is, a ... ...of the world outside himself. Whether the rational order in which man arranges his sensation—the order, for example, of time, space, and ....
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Technical term in the philosophy of Kant, employed to denote the unknowable source of the sensory component of our experience. Later thinkers, including
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an object considered transcendentally apart from all the conditions under which a subject can gain knowledge of it. Hence the thing in itself is, by definition, unknowable. Sometimes used loosely as a synonym of noumenon. (Cf. appearance.)
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