| Re: Noumena = Is-ness=less.
Much better, imo, Michael. Yet the "unknowable" reference would imply our inability to know what the IS is, or even if it is.
If you are referring to the infinitesimal, that can be known even though unobservable because it is the ingredient of greater observed measurements. If the greater composite measurements exist, then what they consist of must exist as well.
I would classify them as phenomenal, though, because appearances are based on the infinite gathering of infinitesimal phenomena. Noumena, defined as a thing in itself, wouldn't exist because all things (phenomena) are composite.
Just a thought... |