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Definition of Thing-in-itself
1. Noun. The intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception.
Definition of Thing-in-itself
1. Noun. (philosophy) In the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and those whom he influenced, a thing as it is independent of any conceptualization or perception by the human mind, postulated by practical reason but existing in a condition which is in principle unknowable and unexperienceable. ¹
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Literary usage of Thing-in-itself
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century by John Theodore Merz (1912)
"One of these terms was " the Thing in itself," another was " the Categorical
Imperative. ... To begin with the first, with " the Thing in itself." 10. ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1900)
"So Kant was forced to posit the thing-in-itself, the unknown and unknowable X,
... Indeed, the thing-in-itself was related to the idea by the very tie which ..."
3. Works of Thomas Hill Green by Thomas Hill Green, Richard Lewis Nettleship (1890)
"Is it, then, the 'thing in itself? Yes, according to Kant, it is that 'thing in
itself which renders possible 'nature in the formal sense. ..."
4. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"... knowledge and faith, practical reason and theoretical reason; and the removal
of the inconsistencies introduced by the notion of the thing-in-itself. ..."
5. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"... knowledge and faith, practical reason and theoretical reason; and the removal
of the inconsistencies introduced by the notion of the thing-in-itself. ..."
6. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1893)
"But, even if it has its source or origin in a thing-in-itself, I do not know it,
and it itself—the sensation —can never tell me. And, more than that, ..."
7. History of Philosophy by Alfred Weber (1904)
"The thing-in-itself may be considered as free. Now, practical reason categorically
affirms the liberty of the acting subject, the freedom of the ego. ..."
8. A History of Modern Philosophy: A Sketch of the History of Philosophy from by Harald Høffding (1908)
"In discussing this question, however, we must observe that the problem of the
thing-in-itself, which occupied such a prominent place in the earliest ..."
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