thing-in-itself

• Philosophischer Begriff für die denkbare Sache an sich, unabhängig von der Wahrnehmung, im Unterschied zu ihrer Erscheinung für die Sinne.

A philosophical term referring to the intellectual conception of a thing as it exists independently of perception, distinct from how it appears to the senses.

1. Intellectual conception of realityC2formal

   The concept of an object as it exists independently of any sensory perception or human experience, as understood by pure reason.

   Ding an sich

   • Philosophers debate whether the thing-in-itself can ever be truly known.
   • Kant argued that we can never access the thing-in-itself directly.
   • The thing-in-itself represents reality stripped of all subjective interpretation.

   Synonymenoumenon