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Noumenon vs Ontology - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between noumenon and ontology

is that noumenon is in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (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 while ontology is the branch of metaphysics that addresses the nature or essential characteristics of being and of things that exist; the study of being qua being.

noumenon

English

(wikipedia noumenon)

Noun

(noumena)
  • (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:
    • 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.
  • * 1954 , Bella K. Milmed, "Theories of Religious Knowledge from Kant to Jaspers," Philosophy , vol. 29, no. 110 (July), pp. 197-8:
    • 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.
  • * 2003 , Jay L. Garfield and Graham Priest, "Nagarjuna and the Limits of Thought," Philosophy East & West , vol. 53, no. 1 (Jan.), page 16:
    • That, we have seen, is what prevents the two truths from collapsing into an appearance/reality or phenomenon/noumenon distinction.

    Related terms

    * noumenal

    Antonyms

    * phenomenon

    References

    * * * * " 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.

    ontology

    English

    (wikipedia ontology)

    Noun

    (ontologies)
  • (uncountable, philosophy) The branch of metaphysics that addresses the nature or essential characteristics of being and of things that exist; the study of being qua being.
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  • (countable, philosophy) The theory of a particular philosopher or school of thought concerning the fundamental types of entity in the universe.
  • * 2000 , , Substantial Knowledge: Aristotle's Metaphysics , Hackett Publishing, p. 97:
    • The answer to the controversial question of whether Aristotle's ontology includes non-substantial particulars, then, is that it does.
  • (logic) A logical system involving theory of classes, developed by (1886-1939).
  • (computer science, information science) A structure of concepts or entities within a domain, organized by relationships; a system model.

    • Usage notes

    In the field of philosophy there is some variation in how the term ontology'' is used. ''Ontology'' is a much more recent term than ''metaphysics'' and takes its root meaning explicitly from the Greek term for ''being.'' ''Ontology'' can be used loosely as a rough equivalent to ''metaphysics or more precisely to denote that subset of the domain of metaphysics which is focused rigorously on the study of being as being.

    Holonyms

    * metaphysics

    Derived terms

    * ontologic * ontological * ontologist * ontologistic * formal ontology

    Related terms

    * ontic * ontically

    References

    * * * * * * " ontology" by F.P. Siegfried, in The Catholic Encyclopedia (Robert Appleton Company, New York, 1911) * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996) * Dictionary of Philosophy'', (editor), Philosophical Library (1962); ''see: "Ontology" by James K. Feibleman, page 219 * " Ontology" by Tom Gruber to appear in the Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Ling Liu and M. Tamer Özsu (editors), Springer-Verlag (2008) English words suffixed with -ology