Noumenon vs Phenomenon - What's the difference?
noumenon | phenomenon | Antonyms |
(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:
An observable fact or occurrence or a kind of observable fact or occurrence.
* 1900 , , The Making of Religion , ch. 1:
* 2007 , "
Appearance; a perceptible aspect of something that is mutable.
* 1662 , Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World , First Day:
A fact or event considered very unusual, curious, or astonishing by those who witness it.
* 1816 , , The Antiquary—Volume I , ch. 18:
A wonderful or very remarkable person or thing.
* 1839 , , Nicholas Nickleby , ch. 23:
* 1888 , , "The Phantom Rickshaw":
An experienced object whose constitution reflects the order and conceptual structure imposed upon it by the human mind (especially by the powers of perception and understanding).
* 1900 , , "Comparison of Some Views of Spencer and Kant," Mind , vol. 9, no. 34, p. 234:
* 1912 , , "Is There a Cognitive Relation?" The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods , vol. 9, no. 9, p. 232:
Phenomenon is a antonym of noumenon.
As nouns the difference between noumenon and phenomenon
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 phenomenon is an observable fact or occurrence or a kind of observable fact or occurrence.noumenon
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.
phenomenon
English
(wikipedia phenomenon)Alternative forms
* phaenomenon, (archaic) * phainomenon * (qualifier)Noun
(phenomena)- The Indians, making a hasty inference from a trivial phenomenon , arrived unawares at a probably correct conclusion.
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- Hurricanes are a meteorological phenomenon .
- I verily believe that in the Moon there are no rains, for if Clouds should gather in any part thereof, as they do about the Earth, they would thereupon hide from our sight some of those things, which we with the Telescope behold in the Moon, and in a word, would some way or other change its Phœnomenon .
- The phenomenon of a huge blazing fire, upon the opposite bank of the glen, again presented itself to the eye of the watchman. . . . He resolved to examine more nearly the object of his wonder.
- "This, sir," said Mr Vincent Crummles, bringing the maiden forward, "this is the infant phenomenon —Miss Ninetta Crummles."
- But, all the same, you're a phenomenon', and as queer a ' phenomenon as you are a blackguard.
- Every "phenomenon " must be, at any rate, partly subjective or dependent on the subject.
- The Kantian phenomenon is the real as we are compelled to think it.