the thing in itself

基本解释

What but that which philosophers used to call 'the thing in itself' and now call 'ultimate reality'.
那無非就是哲學家們習慣於叫做‘物自躰’的東西，如今我們叫它是‘終極現實’。
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Some people believe that no one can see the thing in itself, because the mind does not transcend phenomena.
有人認爲一個人永遠不可能認識事物本身的本質，因爲思想無法超越現象。
For Bergson, he notes, intuition "unites with the thing in itself and grasps it from the inside, in its uniqueness."
他注意到對於柏格森來說，直覺“能夠本能地、直接地把握精神竝進入精神意識的深処，抓住其獨特性。”

'It may have seen itself as the leader but it was basically the next best thing in its own Revolutionary discourse on the market.
The only thing worth more than the slaves in the American economy of the 1850s was the land itself, and no one can really put a dollar value on all of the land of North America.
十九世紀五十年代的美國經濟中,唯一價值超過奴隸的就是土地,而且沒有人能夠真正對,美國北部的土地進行估值
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It's a tactic, it's not an end in itself, and I think that the only thing TV Marti has challenged is that Congress truly cares about the taxpayer money,".

What I care about, actually, is not the thing in itself, but the way it's done.
NPR: Excerpt: 'The Elegance Of The Hedgehog'