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From: bwk@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Barry W. Kort)
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Subject: Re: Concepts and Semantics
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Date: 21 Mar 88 20:01:45 GMT
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Keywords: reality world facts ideas phenomena noumena words concepts
Summary: Sensory Perception vs. Noumenal Conception


Some writers like to distinguish noumena from phenomena.

Although my dictionaries differ in their definitions, the definitions
that captured my imagination came from the World Book:

Phenomenon:  that which is captured through the senses.

Noumenon:  that which is captured through thought.

--Barry Kort

"I don't entertain ideas.  Ideas entertain me."