noun
the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception
• Syn: ↑noumenon
• Hypernyms: ↑content, ↑cognitive content, ↑mental object
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\\| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷\ noun (plural things-in-themselves)Etymology: translation of German ding an sich
: an ultimate reality unqualified by the subjective modes of human perception and thought : a metaphysical reality — compare noumenon, phenomenon 2a(4)
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/thing'in it self"/, n., pl. things-in-themselves /thingz'in dheuhm selvz"/. 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. Cf. noumenon (def. 3).
[1650-60; trans. of G Ding an sich]
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thing-in-itselfˈ noun
(in the philosophy of Kant) a noumenon, the German Ding an sich
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Main Entry: ↑thing
Useful english dictionary. 2012.