thing-in-itself

thing-in-it·self

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Definitions of thing-in-itself word

noun plural thing-in-itself reality as it is apart from experience; what remains to be postulated after space, time, and all the categories of the understanding are assigned to consciousness. Compare noumenon (def 3). 1
noun thing-in-itself (in the philosophy of Kant) an element of the noumenal rather than the phenomenal world, of which the senses give no knowledge but whose bare existence can be inferred from the nature of experience 0
noun thing-in-itself noumenon 0

before 1650

One of the 45% oldest English words

1650-60; translation of German Ding an sich

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This term is known only to a narrow circle of people with rare knowledge. Only 3% of English native speakers know the meaning of this word.

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