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Meaning of "thing-in-itself" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF THING-IN-ITSELF

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF THING-IN-ITSELF

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Thing-In-Itself is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES THING-IN-ITSELF MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Noumenon

The noumenon /ˈnɒuːmɨnɒn/ is a posited object or event that is known without the use of the senses. The term is generally used in contrast with, or in relation to "phenomenon", which refers to anything that appears to, or is an object of, the senses. In Platonic philosophy, the noumenal realm was equated with the world of ideas known to the philosophical mind, in contrast to the phenomenal realm, which was equated with the world of sensory reality, known to the uneducated mind. Much of modern philosophy has generally been skeptical of the possibility of knowledge independent of the senses, and Immanuel Kant gave this point of view its classical version, saying that the noumenal world may exist, but it is completely unknowable to humans. In Kantian philosophy the unknowable noumenon is often linked to the unknowable "thing-in-itself", although how to characterize the nature of the relationship is a question yet open to some controversy.

Definition of thing-in-itself in the English dictionary

The definition of thing-in-itself in the dictionary is an element of the noumenal rather than the phenomenal world, of which the senses give no knowledge but whose bare existence can be inferred from the nature of experience.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THING-IN-ITSELF

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thingamabob
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thinghood
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thingness
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thingumbob
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WORDS THAT END LIKE THING-IN-ITSELF

a law unto itself
do-it-yourself
herself
higher self
himself
inner self
itself
lend itself
myself
oneself
ourself
self
speak for itself
speak for yourself
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to be pleased with yourself
up-itself
yourself

Synonyms and antonyms of thing-in-itself in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «thing-in-itself» into 25 languages

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Find out the translation of thing-in-itself to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of thing-in-itself from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «thing-in-itself» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

物自体
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cosa - en-sí
570 millions of speakers

English

thing-in-itself
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बात में ही
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

شيء في نفسها
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вещь - в-себе
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

coisa - em-si
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জিনিস-ইন-নিজেই
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

chose - en-soi
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Perkara-sendiri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ding-an -sich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

物自体
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

일 -에 - 자체
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dhewe-dhewe
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

điều tự thân
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அதுவாகவே-உள்ள-தன்னை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गोष्ट-मध्ये-स्वतः
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yalnız akıl ile algılanan şey
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cosa - in - sé
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rzeczy - w-sobie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

річ -в- собі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lucru - în - sine,
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πράγμα - στην - ίδια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ding -in- self
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ting - i-sig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tingen i seg selv
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THING-IN-ITSELF»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THING-IN-ITSELF» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about thing-in-itself

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THING-IN-ITSELF»

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Jacob Sigismund Beck’s Standpunctslehre and the Kantian ...
(Refl, 5554, AA 18: 230) It is also apparent from a large group of passages from the Opus Postumum that the thing-in-itself is used by Kant to refer to the transcendental object rather than to an object considered as transcendent. There, Kant ...
Lior Nitzan
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The World as Will and Representation
Corrects nearly 1,000 errors and omissions in the older Haldane-Kemp translation. For the first time, this edition translates and locates all quotes and provides full index.
Arthur Schopenhauer, 2012
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The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte
dualism from within consciousness itself.58 Rather than placing the subject- object dualism between distinct kinds of entity — a representation and thing- in- itself — it is necessary to place it within consciousness itself, so that it is between  ...
Frederick C. Beiser, 2009
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Picturing Hegel: An Illustrated Guide to Hegel's ...
Science should be about the Thing-in-itself — what the world is really like — not merely about the world of appearance. In earlier stages we saw Hegel presenting and then arguing against various ways of understanding Kant's concept of the ...
Julie E. Maybee, 2009
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Schopenhauer on the Character of the World: The Metaphysics ...
We seem to be faced with two positions concerning the will and the thing in itself: ( 1 ) The will is the thing in itself, which is to say that will is the essence of the world as appearance or that will is what the world is besides representation; and (2) ...
John E. Atwell, 1995
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The Opening of Hegel's Logic: From Being to Infinity
A "thing in itself," for Kant, is a thing as it might be apart from the way it appears to us and is experienced by us. Kant insists that we can never know whether there is actually anything to things beyond what we experience of them, but he ...
Stephen Houlgate, 2006
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Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy
I find the most plausible explanation to be that Nietzsche abandoned the falsification thesis because he realized that his account of the thing-in-itself as a contradiction in terms deprived him of any basis for it. It constitutes a major objection to ...
Maudemarie Clark, 1990
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Kant's Theory of A Priori Knowledge
In that instance, the understanding would confuse its merely subjective conditions of thought with properties objects would have independently of those conditions. The negative sense of "noumenon," and with it the notion of a thing in itself, ...
Robert Greenberg, 2010
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Schopenhauer
practice and insight. Yet, Schopenhauer observes, 'if the will were positively and absolutely the [Kantian] thing in itself, then this nothing would be absolute, instead of which it expressly appears to us ... only as a relative nothing' (WR II: 198).
Julian Young, 2005
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Problems from Kant
I do not think that Kant's philosophy — or philosophy in general — is improved by jettisoning the thing in itself. In the next two sections, I say what I can by way of rebutting or mitigating some of the objections to it. B. Classical Criticisms of the ...
James Van Cleve Professor of Philosophy Brown University, 1999

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THING-IN-ITSELF»

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'The Thing and the Thing-in-Itself'
This spare, thought-provoking exhibition's title derives from a distinction posited by Immanuel Kant. That is, a thing can be known by a human being only from his ... «New York Times, Jan 15»
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Book In A Blanket: A BOGO, Green, Charity Christmas Story
For those of you not familiar with philosopher Immanuel Kant, the thing-in-itself refers to his theories on the intelligible world. In particular, Kant believed that ... «Everything PR, Dec 13»
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Can Anyone Really Be an Empiricist?
Bundle Theory relies on the empiricist dogma that nothing which cannot be demonstrated can be believed and explains to us that there is no “thing-in-itself,” a ... «Patheos, Dec 12»
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Beijing's Today Art Museum Celebrates 10th Anniversary With Wang …
The idea of the “thing-in-itself” is a core concept in Kantian philosophy, as well as a central theme in the history of modern thought. Thing-in-itself is the source ... «Jing Daily, Oct 12»
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The Short Answer
Oh I didn't lastyou see, folded over like the marginof a dream of the thing-in-itself. Well, andwhat have we come to? A paper-thin past,just so, and more's the pity. «New Yorker, Sep 12»
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Pulitzer Prize Winner Rae Armantrout, 2010's Miss Thing-In-Itself
On Monday, the Pulitzer Prize jury awarded Versed by Rae Armantrout their 2010 award for poetry. The collection is, they said, "striking for its wit and linguistic ... «Huffington Post, Apr 10»

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