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the thing as it truly is, forever hidden behind the showroom glass of perception.
kant's coinagenamed by Kant to mark reality's no-trespassing zone
unknowabledefined precisely by being impossible to ever know
versus phenomenonits rival is everything you can actually experience
greek rootfrom noein, meaning to think or perceive
plural twistthe proper plural is noumena, like sneaky cousins