Usage in Reference To Pre-Kantian Philosophy
Platonic Ideas and Forms are noumena, and phenomena are things displaying themselves to the senses that noumena and the noumenal world are objects of the highest knowledge, truths, and values is Plato's principal legacy to philosophy.
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