noumenology

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English

Etymology

From noumenon +‎ -logy.

Noun

noumenology (uncountable)

  1. (philosophy) The study of noumena, that is, things as they are in themselves, beyond their immediate human perception.
    • 1876, John Lord Peck, The Ultimate Generalization: An Effort in the Philosophy of Science, page 48:
      The science of the Positive begins with Noumenology or Ontology proper—a true science of comprehensible substances as they are in their own nature, with the inherent primary characteristics belonging to them.
    • 1974, Jean Hippolyte, translated by John Heckman, Genesis and Structure of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, →ISBN, pages 541–42:
      Even before absolute knowledge, religion is already the moment in which phenomenology is transformed into noumenology, in which absolute spirit reveals itself as such, makes itself manifest to itself in manifesting itself to man.
    • 1999, Paolo Bozzi, “Experimental Phenomenology: A Historical Profile”, in Liliana Albertazzi, editor, Shapes of Forms: From Gestalt Psychology and Phenomenology to Ontology and Mathematics, →ISBN, page 30:
      [] Husserl’s prose style grew increasingly impenetrable, and the philosophical implications of his new language tended more towards a noumenology than towards an empirically verifiable phenomenology.

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