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Thing-in-itself

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception wordnet

Etymology

Literal translation of the German Ding an sich.

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