A committed operationalist would respond that speculation about the thing in itself, or noumenon, should be resisted as " meaningless, " and would comment only on phenomena using operationally defined terms and tables of operationally defined measurements.
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How did Nikolais make the two shifting silver protoplasms ( del Saz and Peter Kyle ) glow with such strange brilliance in " Noumenon, " so differently abstract from Martha Graham's emotion-driven women in stretch fabric?
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When Buddhism came to China from " T i-yung " ( Essence and Function ) and " Li-Shih " ( Noumenon and Phenomenon ) were first taken over by Hua-yen Buddhism, which consequently influenced Ch�n deeply.
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Concepts such as " T i-yung " ( Ԛ ( u Essence and Function ) and " Li-shih " ( t�N Noumenon and Phenomenon, or Principle and Practice ) were first taken over by non-being.
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When Schopenhauer identifies the " noumenon " with the desires, needs, and impulses in us that we name " will, " what he is saying is that we participate in the reality of an otherwise unachievable world outside the mind through will.
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As things that exist apart from being appearances to observers ( noumenon ), however, human life can be explained as following from the freedom of will ( though not in a way satisfying Christian and other theology, as he says in other works ).
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However, Stephen Palmquist holds that " noumenon " and " thing-in-itself " are only " loosely " synonymous, inasmuch as they represent the same concept viewed from two different perspectives, and other scholars also argue that they are not identical.
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Words that reference ideas, such as " love " and " honor ", or that reference metaphysical concepts, such as " karma " and " noumenon ", may be conceived of as not even attempting to refer to natural kinds as consistent delineations of objective reality.
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The existence of a material substratum was posited by John Locke, with conceptual similarities to Baruch Spinoza's " substance " and Immanuel Kant's concept of the " noumenon " ( in " The Critique of Pure Reason " ).
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Schleiermacher's doctrine of knowledge accepts the fundamental principle of Kant that knowledge is bounded by experience, but it seeks to remove Kant's scepticism as to knowledge of the " ding an sich " ( the " noumenon " ) or " Sein ", as Schleiermacher's term is.