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From: sarge@thirdi.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode)
Newsgroups: sci.lang,sci.psychology
Subject: Re: Concepts and Semantics
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Date: 22 Mar 88 07:26:47 GMT
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Keywords: reality world facts ideas phenomena noumena words concepts

In article <27472@linus.UUCP> bwk@mbunix (Kort) writes:
>
>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:
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>Phenomenon:  that which is captured through the senses.
>
>Noumenon:  that which is captured through thought.
>

Thanks!!  In the first draft of my book, this was exactly the phraseology I
used.  But then I decided (perhaps wrongly) that "noumenon" had other,
conflicting meanings, and that the essence of the concept was captured by the
more common word, "fact".
-- 
"Absolute knowledge means never having to change your mind."

Sarge Gerbode
Institute for Research in Metapsychology
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