Noumenon (disambiguation)

Noumenon, plur. noumena, is a modern philosophic word used in many languages. It is borrowed without change from the Greek present middle and passive participle of the contract verb, noein (no-e-ein), “to know.” The present participle has a continuous aspect, so that noumenon means more exactly “a thing that is currently being continuously known.” It may mean specifically:

Philosophy and religion[]

• Noumenon, the conceived, as opposed to phainomenon^{[check spelling]}, the sensed (Plato) or the inferred, or thing-in-itself, as opposed to phenomenon, the experienced thing (Kant)
• Noumenon, translation of Sat (Sanskrit), the real, as in the Pavamana Mantra
• Noumenon, as universal spiritual essence, God in Buddhism
• Noumenon, the transcendent Brahman
• Noumenon, realised by denial in Apophatic theology
• Noumenon, translation of Li, one of the Four Dharmadhātu of Tu-shun

Arts and entertainment[]

Music[]

• Noumena (band), a Finnish melodic death metal band
• Noumenon, a 2005 album by Absurd Minds
• "Noumenon", a song by Nevermore from the 2003 album Enemies of Reality
• "Noumenon and Phenomenon", a song by Scar Symmetry from the 2009 album Dark Matter Dimensions

Other arts and entertainment[]

• Noumenon, a 1953 choreography by Alwin Nikolais
• Noumenon, a 1992 work by Evan Oakley
• Noumenon, an unknown beast in the drawings of Charles Avery
• Noumenon, a 2006 sculpture by Steve Brudniak
• Noumenon, a 2017 novel by

See also[]

• Numen (disambiguation)
• Numinous (disambiguation)

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