noumenalistn.adj.

1897 Psychol. Rev. 4 25 Our Noumenalist, or our Neo-Kantian, thus bases himself upon an experience, even though he misinterprets it.

1898 Philos. Rev. 7 21 The thing-in-itself furnishes occasion for further compromise. With the noumenalist, Kant asserts its existence, with the phenomenalist, he denies its knowableness by us.

1904 G. S. Fullerton Syst. Metaphysics v. 88 The hypo-statized abstractions of the noumenalist and the neo-Kantian.

1990 Washington Times (Nexis) 11 Jan. e3 Like the Washington-based ‘Gathering Forces’ group, whose artists also rely heavily on castoffs, the Noumenalists reconfigure elements to produce new meanings.

1999 J. van Cleve Probl. with Kant i. 11 Unlike some phenomenalists, however, Kant is also a noumenalist.

1925 J. E. Turner Theory Direct Realism 8 The term ‘Direct’ is intended to imply further the complete absence of any representative or noumenalist factors in the process and object of perception.

1965 Canad. Jrnl. Econ. & Polit. Sci. 31 599 The bridge which Professor Bluhm wishes to help build is not only between classic theories and modern analysis but, more importantly, between what he calls ‘noumenalist’ and ‘naturalist’ theories.

1999 J. van Cleve Probl. with Kant x. 151 He distinguished two main forms..: a phenomenalist form, which reduces the object to a complex of sensations, and a noumenalist form, according to which the object ‘must be something “in itself”’.