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Is God a noumenon? And why?
You tagged this question with Kant, so I will answer from his texts first.
The most comprehensive writing about what God is is his second critique, the Critique of Practical Reason (CPrR). There ...
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Why does Immanuel Kant never doubt the existence of matter and external world themselves?
In the B-edition of the first Critique, Kant asserts the existence of the world when we're not looking at it in two main stretches. The more famous section is "The Refutation of Idealism":
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Is the law “matter attracts matter” a noumenon?
Kant uses the term “noumenon” to denote things in themselves, we cannot perceive but only imagine and think about. We do not have direct access to things in themselves. Instead we construct on the ...
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Kant vs Scientific Rationalism - Do we need the Ding an Sich
The thing-in-itself isn't the same as theoretical entities, i.e. entities that we cannot directly perceive but can infer from our observation. Kant doesn't, unlike some empiricists, make a sharp ...
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Are noumena and phenomena relativistic concepts?
No, there is nothing relativistic in the definitions of noumena and phenomena. Phenomena are by definition the things as they appear to the senses. Calling these things noumena is not relative; it is ...
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Which of the following are examples of Kantian noumena?
It's all of the above, because any object is a noumenon, an object of thought but not of experience, if we abstract from our specific forms of sensibility - time and space. An appearance (or: ...
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What is the difference between the “thing in itself” and noumena?
Since Kant holds that, "Space is 3-dimensional," and, "Time is 1-dimensional," are synthetical, he leaves the door open to conceiving, but not visualizing (imagining), higher-...
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Are numbers noumena?
As Guambra Feo has pointed out, metaphysical presupposition play a role in determining an answer. For instance, the term 'noumenon' invokes the term 'real' or 'objective' indirectly by referencing '...
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