Entity vs Noumenon - What's the difference?
entity | noumenon |
That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form.
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An existent something that has the properties of being real, and having a real existence.
(computing) Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, an organised array or set of individual elements or parts.
The state or quality of being or existence.
* Quotation: The policy of the government of the United States is to seek . . . to preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity --
(philosophy) In the philosophy of (1724-1804) and those whom he influenced, a thing as it is independent of any conceptualization or perception by the human mind; a thing-in-itself, postulated by practical reason but existing in a condition which is in principle unknowable and unexperienceable.
* 1871 , David Asher, "Schopenhauer and Darwinism," Journal of Anthropology , vol. 1, no. 3 (Jan), page 317:
* 1954 , Bella K. Milmed, "Theories of Religious Knowledge from Kant to Jaspers," Philosophy , vol. 29, no. 110 (July), pp. 197-8:
* 2003 , Jay L. Garfield and Graham Priest, "Nagarjuna and the Limits of Thought," Philosophy East & West , vol. 53, no. 1 (Jan.), page 16:
As nouns the difference between entity and noumenon
is that entity is that which has a distinct existence as an individual unit often used for organisations which have no physical form while noumenon is (philosophy) in the philosophy of (1724-1804) and those whom he influenced, a thing as it is independent of any conceptualization or perception by the human mind; a thing-in-itself, postulated by practical reason but existing in a condition which is in principle unknowable and unexperienceable.entity
English
(wikipedia entity)Noun
(entities)- It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities .
- The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.
Synonyms
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* entitative * entity-relationship model * geopolitical entity * legal entity * nonentitynoumenon
English
(wikipedia noumenon)Noun
(noumena)- The final result of Kant's philosophy, expressed in the concisest terms, was the proposition, so humiliating to human cognition, but, at the same time, so fertile in consequences, that we can know only phenomena'', or the outward appearances of things, but not the ''noumenon , or the thing in itself.
- We have no specific concept of the noumenon , but think of it merely as whatever the object may be apart from the manner in which our knowledge exhibits it.
- That, we have seen, is what prevents the two truths from collapsing into an appearance/reality or phenomenon/noumenon distinction.
Antonyms
* phenomenonReferences
* * * * "philosophy of Immanuel Kant" by William Turner, in The Catholic Encyclopedia , Robert Appleton Company, New York, 1911. * The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy , Simon Blackburn, Oxford University Press, 1996. * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996) * Dictionary of Philosophy'', (ed.), Philosophical Library, 1962. ''See: "Noumenon" by Otto F. Kraushaar, page 215.
