metaphenomenaladj.
/ˌmɛtəfᵻˈnɒmᵻnl/, U.S. /ˌmɛdəfəˈnɑmən(ə)l/ Chiefly Philosophy.
That may only be apprehended through abstract thought, rather than through ordinary sense perceptions; lying beyond experiential knowledge or immediate reality.
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1844 H. P. Tappan Elem. Logic 12 Those objects which, by supposition, lie beyond immediate consciousness, are metaphenomenal.
1882 G. S. Morris Kant's Critique vi. 189 No distinction of phenomena from the metaphenomenal, as objects of knowledge.
1957 in P. Edwards & A. Pap Mod. Introd. Philos. xlvi. 591 No metaphysician would pretend that one could see a metaphenomenal reality with the eyes.
1973 Current Anthropol. 14 169 We cannot reduce cultural reality to just that empirical reality that can be grasped by sensory knowledge alone... Nor do we necessarily have to agree with the structural creed that cultural reality is to be found only at a metaphenomenal and metaempirical level.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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