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noumenon (n  `mənŏn'), in the philosophical system of Immanuel Kant Kant, Immanuel (ĭmän`..... Click the link for more information. , a "thing-in-itself"; it is opposed to phenomenon phenomenon, an observable fact or event; in philosophy the definitions and uses of the term have varied. In the philosophy of Aristotle phenomena were the objects of the senses (e.g., sights and sounds), as opposed to the real objects understood by the mind. ..... Click the link for more information. , the thing that appears to us. Noumena are the basic realities behind all sensory experience. According to Kant, they are not knowable because they cannot be perceived, but they must be thinkable because moral decision making and scientific investigation cannot proceed without the assumption that they exist. |
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He revels in the "unfair" advantage the empiricist inevitably enjoys over the theologian, who has to construct stuttering, after-the-fact explanations of the noumenal world, as William James (another of Dennett's Unglaubensgensossen) says in The Varieties of Religious Experience: "So we have the strange phenomenon, as Kant assures us, of a mind believing with all its strength in the real presence of things of no one of which it can form any notion whatsoever. The zoot suited youths' "heavy heel plates clicking remote, cryptic messages" (443), for example, communicate a self-defined group style rather than defined political attitudes--"an unstated, even noumenal set of values that exist beneath the surface of black American culture," which "manifest themselves in a characteristic manner, or an expressive style" (Neal 113). In his exposition of the goal of the new rhetoric in theology one thing becomes clear: the role of the sermon in almost every narrative homiletics is to evoke in the hearers some latent religious feeling, a sense of the noumenal, a relationship with the holy. |
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