Noumenal vs Disembodied - What's the difference?
noumenal | disembodied | Related terms |
(philosophy, especially Kantianism) Of or pertaining to the noumenon or the realm of things as they are in themselves.
*1878 , James Sully, "The Question of Visual Perception in Germany," Mind , vol. 3, no. 10, p. 193,
*:We may here distinguish between two kinds of reality, phenomenal or relative, and noumenal or absolute.
*2003 , Jay Garfield and Graham Priest, "N?g?rjuna and the Limits of Thought," Philosophy East and West , vol. 53, no. 1, p. 3,
*:When Kant says that it is impossible to know anything about, or apply any categories to, the noumenal realm, he would seem to be doing just what cannot be done.
(disembody)
Having no material body, immaterial; incorporeal or insubstantial.
* {{quote-book
, year=1960
, author=
, title=(Jeeves in the Offing)
, section=chapter 8
, passage=You'd have thought that this Wickham would have learned at her mother's knee that the last thing a fellow in a highly nervous condition wants, when he's searching someone's room, is a disembodied voice in his immediate ear asking him how he's getting on. The upshot, I need scarcely say, was that I came down like a sack of coals.}}