thingsinthemselves
Things-in themselves (Dinge an sich) is a philosophical term for objects as they exist independently of perception, interpretation, or cognitive structures. The term is most closely associated with Immanuel Kant, who argued that human knowledge is limited to appearances rather than things as they are in themselves.
In Kant's view, sensibility gives us intuitions of space and time, and understanding supplies categories that
The claim has epistemological and metaphysical consequences, including the claim that the external world is not
In contemporary philosophy, discussions of things-in themselves often arise in debates about realism, perception, and the
Related topics include Kant, the noumenon, the phenomenon, epistemology, and metaphysics.