COGNITIVE DISSONANTICS

Phenomena are things as experienced; noumena are things in themselves. Perception versus reality, unresolved.

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In Kant’s terms, phenomena are the world as it appears through our cognitive framework. Noumena are “things-in-themselves,” which Kant says we can’t know directly in the same way we know appearances.

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