thing-in-itself

• Terme philosophique désignant la conception intelligible d'une chose telle qu'elle existe indépendamment de la perception, par opposition à la manière dont elle apparaît aux sens.

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.

   chose en soi

   • 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.

   Synonymesnoumenon