Ding an sich
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Ding an sich is Immanuel Kant’s term for the “thing-in-itself,” referring to reality as it exists independently of human perception or experience.
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Kantian concept
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metaphysical concept ⓘ philosophical concept ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Kant’s distinction between noumena and phenomena
ⓘ
noumenal world ⓘ |
| centralTo |
Kantian epistemology
ⓘ
Kantian metaphysics ⓘ Kantian philosophy ⓘ |
| characterizedAs |
beyond possible experience
ⓘ
independent of human cognition ⓘ independent of sensibility ⓘ unknowable in itself ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
appearance
ⓘ
phenomenon ⓘ |
| debatedBy |
Arthur Schopenhauer
ⓘ
Friedrich Nietzsche NERFINISHED ⓘ G. W. F. Hegel ⓘ Johann Gottlieb Fichte ⓘ |
| debatedIn |
19th-century German philosophy
ⓘ
contemporary metaphysics ⓘ |
| describedIn | Critique of Pure Reason ⓘ |
| discussedIn |
Kantian ethics debates
ⓘ
philosophy of perception ⓘ theory of knowledge ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | thing in itself ⓘ |
| hasAspect |
distinction between appearance and reality
ⓘ
limits of human knowledge ⓘ ontological status of things ⓘ |
| hasEnglishName | thing-in-itself ⓘ |
| hasInterpretation |
as cause of appearances
ⓘ
as merely a limiting concept ⓘ as unknowable substrate of phenomena ⓘ |
| hasOriginalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| hasPhilosophicalProblem |
how the mind relates to reality in itself
ⓘ
whether things in themselves can affect appearances ⓘ |
| hasRole |
ground of appearances
ⓘ
limit concept for knowledge ⓘ |
| influenced |
Arthur Schopenhauer
ⓘ
Friedrich Nietzsche ⓘ German idealism ⓘ
surface form:
German Idealism
analytic philosophy of perception ⓘ phenomenology ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Immanuel Kant ⓘ |
| partOf |
Critique of Pure Reason
ⓘ
surface form:
Kant’s transcendental idealism
|
| refersTo |
reality independent of human experience
ⓘ
reality independent of human perception ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
noumenon
ⓘ
phenomenon ⓘ |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
thing-in-itself