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Jiang's Kantian term for objective reality before it is filtered into human experience.
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things in themselves
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...the nomina and the phenomena okay nomina nomina is just things in themselves okay and this is this is what beatrice refers to as..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...the nomina and the phenomena okay nomina nomina is just things in themselves okay and this is this is what beatrice refers to as..."
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"...The first world is the world of objective reality. The things in themselves. Or the nomina. Okay? And what's a nomina? They're just vibrations...."
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"...the nomina and the phenomena okay nomina nomina is just things in themselves okay and this is this is what beatrice refers to as..."
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"...parts. Reality itself, called the Nomana. Nomana just means the things in themselves, the objective reality. And then there is the Phenomena. And what..."
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"...right hemisphere does is it connects to the Nomana, the things in themselves, that we can never know. And then the left translates it..."
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"...that there are two realities the Nomana the world the things in themselves and the phenomena the things to us okay so what happens..."
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"...nomana just means reality that is outside of us, the things in themselves. What he tells us is we can never know the nomana."
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"...the things that are to me, not the nomana, the things in themselves, okay? And so we imagine reality, we hallucinate reality, okay? But..."
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"...that there is something called the Nomana, which are the things in themselves. We can never know the things in themselves. We can never..."
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"...okay? So, the objective reality is called nomina, okay? The things in themselves. Do not worry about these names, but this is the objective..."
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"...objective reality. What he calls the Nomana, OK, or the things in themselves. That is not knowable to us. That is a world we..."
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"...okay? So, and then this reason interacts with reality, the things in themselves. And then what we see is the appearance, okay? So the..."
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