Definitions for thing-in-itself

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IPA: /ˌθɪŋ ɪn ɪtˈsɛlf/

Thing-In-Itself is a 15 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 605 anagrams from letters in thing-in-itself (--efghiiilnnstt).

Definitions for thing-in-itself

noun

1. reality as it is apart from experience; what remains to be postulated after space, time, and all the categories of the understanding are assigned to consciousness. Compare noumenon (def 3).

Origin of thing-in-itself

1650-60; translation of German Ding an sich

Examples for thing-in-itself

It was not the "thing-in-itself," it was only the refraction of it through our atmosphere.

The thing-in-itself either is or else it is not the reality of phenomena.

But for that matter, Electricity is only known to us as associated with some form of Substance, and not as "a thing-in-itself."

The thing-in-itself is the unknowable reality of the thing we know.

And in making such reference Science is thinking of the thing-in-itself.

He makes the reason a thing-in-itself outside time, although it is an activity, a process of consciousness in time.

Nevertheless the thing-in-itself is a problematic conception and of a limiting or negative use merely.

What the reality is, is the problem of the thing-in-itself (to use the Kantian term).

The fountain and support of it is the will to live, or the thing-in-itself, which we are.

A thing-in-itself which is not a thing to some consciousness is an entirely unrealizable, because self-contradictory, conception.