Noumenon vs Pith - What's the difference?
noumenon | pith |
(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:
The soft, spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees.
The spongy interior substance of a feather.
The spinal cord; the marrow.
(figuratively) The essential or vital part.
* Shakespeare
To extract the pith from (a plant stem or tree).
To kill (especially cattle or laboratory animals) by cutting or piercing the spinal cord.
As nouns the difference between noumenon and pith
is that 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 while pith is the soft, spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees.As a verb pith is
to extract the pith from (a plant stem or tree).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.
pith
English
Noun
(-)- The pith of my idea is truth.
- enterprises of great pith and moment
