In Kantian philosophy, the thing-in-itself (German: Ding an sich) is the status of objects as they are, independent of representation and observation....
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Noumenon (redirect from Thing-itself)
the unknowable "thing-in-itself" (German: Ding an sich). However, the nature of the relationship between the two is not made explicit in Kant's work, and...
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Critique of the Kantian philosophy (category Articles lacking in-text citations from September 2011)
merits are as follows: The distinction of the phenomenon from the thing-in-itself (Ding an sich) The intellect mediates between things and knowledge...
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German idealism (category Articles lacking in-text citations from September 2022)
of the world, but they do not provide us with direct access to the thing-in-itself, which is the ultimate reality. Kant's transcendental idealism has...
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Indeterminacy (philosophy) (redirect from Indeterminacy in philosophy)
"thing in itself": "I would repeat it, however, a hundred times, that 'immediate certainty,' as well as 'absolute knowledge' and the 'thing in itself,'...
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knowledge of mere phenomena rather than things in themselves. Schopenhauer identifies the thing-in-itself — the inner essence of everything — as will: a...
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Schopenhauer, Kant's 'greatest service' lay in the 'differentiation between phenomena and the thing-in-itself (noumena), based on the proof that between...
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object Broadly, an entity Thing-in-itself (or noumenon), the reality that underlies perceptions, a term coined by Immanuel Kant Thing theory, a branch of critical...
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Immanuel Kant (section Collected works in German)
own mind, and therefore cannot access the "thing-in-itself". On this particular view, the thing-in-itself is not numerically identical to the phenomenal...
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Solipsism (section In infants)
representation, the Kantian thing-in-itself. He believed, therefore, that we could gain knowledge about the thing-in-itself, something Kant said was impossible...
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Idealism (section Idealism in Eastern philosophy)
arguments without committing themselves to whether reality as such, the "thing in itself", is ultimately mental. Within metaphysical idealism, there are numerous...
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Yogachara (category Buddhism in the Nara period)
example, a thing may be designated as existing or non-existing, but such designations do not apply to true reality or the thing-in-itself. The practice...
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property that a thing has itself, including its context. An extrinsic (or relational) property is a property that depends on a thing's relationship with...
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Salomon Maimon (category Articles lacking in-text citations from February 2014)
the thing-in-itself. That which is object of thought cannot be outside consciousness; just as in mathematics "–1" is an unreal quantity, so things-in-themselves...
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Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (redirect from Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science)
because they considered an appearance to be a thing–in–itself (a thing as it is apart from being an appearance). In the last two antinomies, due to a misunderstanding...
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Transcendental idealism (category Articles lacking in-text citations from November 2013)
object is an appearance and not a thing-in-itself. Humans necessarily perceive objects as located in space and in time. This condition of experience...
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The Man-Thing (Dr. Theodore "Ted" Sallis) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writers Stan...
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Critique of Pure Reason (section Tables of principles and categories of understanding in the critique)
and processes pre-structure experience. Things as they are "in themselves"—the thing in itself, or das Ding an sich—are unknowable. For something to become...
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the thing-in-itself and his moral philosophy. The "back to Kant" movement began in the 1860s, as a reaction to the German materialist controversy in the...
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A priori and a posteriori (category Concepts in epistemology)
. Fichte who, because the thing-in-itself had just been discredited, at once prepared a system without any thing-in-itself. Consequently, he rejected...
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Res ipsa loquitur (redirect from The thing itself speaks)
Res ipsa loquitur (Latin: "the thing speaks for itself") is a doctrine in common law and Roman-Dutch law jurisdictions under which a court can infer negligence...
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The Thing (Benjamin Jacob "Ben" Grimm) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is a founding member of the Fantastic...
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examination. In 1787, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi addressed, in his book On Faith, or Idealism and Realism, Kant's concept of "thing-in-itself." Jacobi agreed...
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point of view, Kant’s chief merit lies in his distinction between the thing-in-itself and the phenomenal world in which it appears, i.e., the world as we...
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something no matter who you are or what you want, because the thing is good in itself. These types of imperatives belong to the category of categorical...
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Mou Zongsan (section Scholarship in English)
Phenomenon and Thing-in-Itself, and Treatise of the Perfect Good – a commitment that is reflected in Mou's decision to express his philosophy in Kantian terms...
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and a subject cannot produce an object, we are forced to assume a thing-in-itself. This is a notion which is self-contradictory if consciousness were...
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immortality of the human soul. Kant referred to these objects as "The Thing in Itself" and goes on to argue that their status as objects beyond all possible...
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Substance theory (category Theories in ancient Greek philosophy)
the substance but distinct from it. In this role, a substance can be referred to as a substratum or a thing-in-itself. Substances are particulars that are...
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derived from the famous Franklin D. Roosevelt quote, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." The anthology was born out of Masters of Horror and shares...
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