noumen
Latin edit
Noun edit
noumen
- Early variant of numen.
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Noumenon. Doublet of noumenon.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
noumen m inan
- (Kantian philosophy) noumenon, thing-in-itself (thing as it is independent of any conceptualization)
- Synonyms: noumenon, rzecz sama w sobie
- (Platonic philosophy) noumenon (essence of a thing, as opposed to a phenomenon, knowable only by reason)
- Synonym: noumenon
Declension edit
Declension of noumen
Further reading edit
- noumen in Polish dictionaries at PWN