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"If by 'noumenon' we mean a thing so far as it is not an
"If by 'noumenon' we mean a thing so far as it is not an
object of our sensible intuition, and so abstract from our mode
object of our sensible intuition, and so abstract from our mode
of intuiting it, this is a noumenon in the ''negative'' sense of the term".<ref>''[[Critique of Pure Reason]]'' A250/B307,P267(NKS)</ref>
of intuiting it, this is a noumenon in the ''negative'' sense of the term".
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namely, the intellectual, which is not that which we possess,
namely, the intellectual, which is not that which we possess,
and of which we cannot comprehend even the possibility.
and of which we cannot comprehend even the possibility.
This would be 'noumenon' in the ''positive'' sense of the term."<ref>''[[Critique of Pure Reason]]'' A250/B30,P2677(NKS)</ref>
This would be 'noumenon' in the ''positive'' sense of the term."
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