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Variant of noumenon

noumenon Definition

nou·me·non (no̵̅o̅′mə nän′, no̵u′-)

noun pl. noumena -·mena (-nə)

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

Etymology: Ger < Gr nooumenon, neut. of noumenos, prp. pass. of noein, to perceive < nous, noos, the mind

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