Meaning of phenomenal world | Babel Free

Definitions

Especially in philosophical idealism, the world as it appears to human beings as a result of being structured by human understanding; the world as experienced, as opposed to the world of things-in-themselves.

Examples

“With intelligence springs up at a stroke the phenomenal world, the world as we know⟳ it.”

“He . . . suggests a new theory based on the radical assumption that light⟳ can convey information about the world and, hence, that the phenomenal world does not have⟳ to be constructed by the mind⟳ (or the brain) out of meaningless data.”

“It is true that Wang does write⟳ about the power of tragedy to pierce the illusions of the phenomenal world and release⟳ us from the bondage of the "desires of life."”

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