Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

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The people who were thrown out the window sure didn't think defenestration was a noumenon .
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I thought we exhausted the defenestration subject last week....We will gorgonize the thread if we keep harping on the noumenon of defenestration.

Zeev
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noumenon
Related: Philosophy

(noo´menŏn&180;) , in the philosophical system of Immanuel Kant , a “thing-in-itself” ; it is opposed to phenomenon , the thing that appears to us. Noumena are the basic realities behind all sensory experience. According to Kant, they are not knowable because they cannot be perceived, but they must be thinkable because moral decision making and scientific investigation cannot proceed without the assumption that they exist.

Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition