As aesthetic intuition knows the phenomenon or nature, and philosophic intuition the noumenon or spirit; so economic activity wills the phenomenon or nature, and moral activity the noumenon or spirit.
Kant, hisNoumenon agrees with Ens of Parmenides, i.
They discussed much, as I have before remarked, whether it was one or many; noumenon in the singular, or noumena in the plural.
For if reason sought to do this, it would have to show how the logical relation of principle and consequence can be used synthetically in a different sort of intuition from the sensible; that is how a causa noumenon is possible.
Hamilton says must be either limited or unlimited: concerning theNoumenon Space, he does not hazard an opinion whether such a thing exists or not.
This is almost equal to the discovery of a Noumenon Space.
I realize that noumenon is a daisy; and I will not deny that I shall use it whenever I am in a company which I think I can embarrass with it; but, at the same time, I think it is out of place among friends in an autobiography.
Professor Dawes Hicks is justified in maintaining in his book, die Begriffe Phaenomenon und Noumenon in ihrem Verhaeltniss zu einander bei Kant (Leipzig, 1897, p.
For he there again introduces the concept of the transcendental object, and adds that if "we are pleased to name it noumenon for the reason that its representation is not sensuous, we are free so to do.
Kant now claims that it is the concept of noumenon in the negative sense, as equivalent therefore simply to the thing in itself, that alone is involved, as a Grenzbegriff, in the "doctrine of sensibility.
By noumenon in the positive sense, on the other hand, is meant an object of non-sensuous intuition.
The concept of a noumenon is a merely limiting concept, the function of which is to curb the pretensions of sensibility; and it is therefore only of negative employment.
Noumenon in its negative sense is defined as being merely that which is not an object of sensuous intuition.
For it is only by means of this faculty and its Idea of a noumenon .
Here again Kant is substituting the concept of a noumenon for the less definite concept of the thing in itself.
The term noumenon may, he there says,[1300] be used either positively or negatively.
If, by the term noumenon, we understand a thing so far as it is not an object of our sensuous intuition, thus making abstraction of our mode of intuiting it, this is a noumenon in the negative sense of the word.
The conception of a noumenon is therefore not the conception of an object, but merely a problematical conception inseparably connected with the limitation of our sensibility.
The conception of a noumenonis therefore merely a limitative conception and therefore only of negative use.
What, therefore, we call noumenon must be understood by us as such in a negative sense.
The question therefore is whether, over and above the empirical use of the understanding, a transcendental use is possible, which applies to the noumenon as an object.
Bacon was the populariser of that method of reasoning known as the inductive, that method which seeks to trace back from the phenomena of the moment to the eternal noumenon or noumena--from the conditioned to the absolute.
They wrote against substance assumed as the "noumenon lying underneath all phenomena--the substratum supporting all qualities--the something in which all accidents inhere.
He contents himself with saying we must acknowledge the reality of an unknown something which is the cause of all things,--the noumenon of all phenomena.
But what that something is, what is the noumenon which underlies the phenomenon, it is impossible for us to know.
Christian Science, and the divine correspondence of [1] noumenon and phenomenon understood, are here signi- fied.
Reason and revelation declare that God is both noumenon and phenomena,--the first and only cause.
Co-existence and sequence, therefore, may be affirmed or denied not only between phenomena, but between noumena, or between a noumenon and phenomena.
Such a want of comprehension of the distinction between a thing and its sensible manifestation, or, in metaphysical language, between the noumenon and the phenomenon, would be impossible to even the dullest disciple of Kant or Coleridge.
Phenomenon without noumenon is unthinkable; and yet noumenon can not be thought of in the true sense of thinking.
It is the position of the follower of Immanuel Kant who has not yet repudiated the noumenon or thing-in-itself discussed in the last chapter (section 51).
We cannot think of a noumenon as a substance, for the notions of substance and quality have been declared to be only a scheme for the ordering of phenomena.
The transcendent questions concerning the noumenon of things are unanswerable; we know ourselves, even, only as phenomena!
Back of all phenomena, or the outward show of things, there is always a noumenonin the unseen.
Behind the phenomena of human history, the noumenon is the Human Spirit, moving in accordance with its own necessities and cyclic laws.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "noumenon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
