different between unexperienceable vs noumenon

English

un- +? experienceable

unexperienceable (not comparable)

(chiefly philosophy) Incapable of being experienced.
- 1912, W. P. Montague, "The New Realism and the Old," The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, vol. 9, no. 2 (Jan. 18), p. 45:
  It is at the cost of making the absolute unknowable, of reducing it to the status of the unexperienceable external world of the dualistic realist.
- 2000, Kevin Schilbrack, "Metaphysics in D?gen," Philosophy East and West, vol. 50, no. 1 (Jan), p. 53 n61:
  It is beyond logic, an inconceivable but not unexperienceable unity of opposites.

From German Noumenon, from Ancient Greek ????????? (nooúmenon, “thing that is known”), passive present participle of ???? (noé?, “I know”).

noumenon (plural noumena)

(from Kantian philosophy on) A thing as it is independent of any conceptualization or perception by the human mind, postulated by practical reason but existing in a condition which is in principle unknowable and unexperienceable.
Synonym: thing-in-itself
Antonym: phenomenon

noumenon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
“noumenon” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
“noumenon”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
William Turner (1911) , “philosophy of Immanuel Kant”, in The Catholic Encyclopedia?^[1], New York: Robert Appleton Company
Simon Blackburn (1996) The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, Oxford University Press
Oxford English Dictionary, second edition, 1989
Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987–1996
Dagobert D. Runes (ed.) (1962) Dictionary of Philosophy, Philosophical Library, page 215

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