Thing-in-itself (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun, plural things-in-them·selves [thingz-in-thuhm-selvz]. /ˌθɪŋz ɪn ðəmˈsɛlvz/. Kantianism.
  1. 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.
noun
  1. (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
Thing-in-itself (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

More Definitions