| 释义 |
‖ an sich, phr.|an ˈzɪç|
[G., = ‘in itself’. Orig. taken from Ger. philos.]
In itself; in the abstract; not in relation to anything else. Cf. Ding an sich.
1846J. D. Morell Hist. View Speculative Philos. II. v. 142 An existence may be viewed in relation to itself, or in relation to the things around it; it may be existence an sich or existence für andere. 1909W. James Pluralistic Universe v. 215 Others, as Kant for example, have denied intellectualism's pretension to define reality an sich or in its absolute capacity. 1928T. S. Eliot in E. Pound Sel. Poems p. xvii, Not the matter an sich, which is unknowable, but the matter as we know it. 1956A. Huxley Adonis & Alphabet 197 Much more widespread than the love of truth is the appetite for marvels, the love of the Phony an sich, in itself and for its own sweet sake. |