NOUMENON (noumena)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: noumena   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does noumenon mean? 

• NOUMENON (noun)
  The noun NOUMENON has 1 sense:

1. the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception

  Familiarity information: NOUMENON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOUMENON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

noumenon; thing-in-itself

Hypernyms ("noumenon" is a kind of...):

cognitive content; content; mental object (the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned)

 Context examples 

Positive science deals only with phenomena, yet you are foolish enough to strive to be ontologists and to deal with noumena.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Phenomenon and noumenon were bandied back and forth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then noumena, which are not in your minds when you are born, have no way of getting in—

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)