thing-in-itself

[ thing-in-it-self ]

/ ˌθɪŋ ɪn ɪtˈsɛlf /

noun, plural things-in-them·selves [thingz-in-thuhm-selvz]. /ˌθɪŋz ɪn ðəmˈsɛlvz/. Kantianism.

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).

Origin of thing-in-itself

1650–60; translation of German Ding an sich

Words nearby thing-in-itself

thin film, thing, thingamabob, thingamajig, T hinge, thing-in-itself, thingness, thing or two, things are looking up, thingstead, thingumabob

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Example sentences from the Web for thing-in-itself

On the other hand, everything as thing-in-itself is free; for 'freedom' means only non-subjection to that law.
Schopenhauer|Thomas Whittaker
The thing-in-itself must, according to Kant, be free from all forms associated with knowing.
The World's Greatest Books--Volume 14--Philosophy and Economics|Various
It was not the "thing-in-itself," it was only the refraction of it through our atmosphere.
Creative Evolution|Henri Bergson
Nevertheless the thing-in-itself is a problematic conception and of a limiting or negative use merely.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 8|Various

The fountain and support of it is the will to live, or the thing-in-itself, which we are.
The World's Greatest Books--Volume 14--Philosophy and Economics|Various

British Dictionary definitions for thing-in-itself

thing-in-itself

noun

(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

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Cultural definitions for thing-in-itself

thing-in-itself

A notion in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. A thing-in-itself is an object as it would appear to us if we did not have to approach it under the conditions of space and time.

单词	thing-in-itself
释义	thing-in-itself [ thing-in-it-self ] / ˌθɪŋ ɪn ɪtˈsɛlf / noun, plural things-in-them·selves [thingz-in-thuhm-selvz]. /ˌθɪŋz ɪn ðəmˈsɛlvz/. Kantianism. 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). Origin of thing-in-itself 1650–60; translation of German Ding an sich Words nearby thing-in-itself thin film, thing, thingamabob, thingamajig, T hinge, thing-in-itself, thingness, thing or two, things are looking up, thingstead, thingumabob Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for thing-in-itself On the other hand, everything as thing-in-itself is free; for 'freedom' means only non-subjection to that law. Schopenhauer\|Thomas Whittaker The thing-in-itself must, according to Kant, be free from all forms associated with knowing. The World's Greatest Books--Volume 14--Philosophy and Economics\|Various It was not the "thing-in-itself," it was only the refraction of it through our atmosphere. Creative Evolution\|Henri Bergson Nevertheless the thing-in-itself is a problematic conception and of a limiting or negative use merely. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 8\|Various The fountain and support of it is the will to live, or the thing-in-itself, which we are. The World's Greatest Books--Volume 14--Philosophy and Economics\|Various British Dictionary definitions for thing-in-itself thing-in-itself noun (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 Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for thing-in-itself thing-in-itself A notion in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. A thing-in-itself is an object as it would appear to us if we did not have to approach it under the conditions of space and time. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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