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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • "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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  • 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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    because they considered an appearance to be a thinginitself (a thing as it is apart from being an appearance). In the last two antinomies, due to a misunderstanding...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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 (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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  • 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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  • 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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    primacy of the metaphysical Will as the Kantian thing-in-itself, the ground of life and all being. In his chief work, The World as Will and Representation...
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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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  • tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous "Thing", an extraterrestrial life-form that assimilates, then...
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    unconditional requirement that must be obeyed in all circumstances and is justified as an end in itself, possessing intrinsic value beyond simply being...
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  • Thing T. Thing, often referred to as just Thing, is a fictional character in The Addams Family series. The Addamses called it "Thing" because it was something...
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