The German philospher Kant has a phrase, "Dich an Sich" which literally means
the thing in itself which describes the consciously untenable nature of the non-subjective intrinsic properties of an object.
I won't get too muddled in jargon or technicalities, but for Kant, he sees the world as split into two realms, the
Phenomena and the
Noumena. The
Phenomena is what we see, what...
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