Noumenon, N. That Which Exists, As Distinguished From That Which Merely Seems To Exist, The Latter Being A Phenomenon. The Noumenon Is A Bit Difficult To Locate; It Can Be Apprehended Only By A Process Of Reasoning - Which Is A Phenomenon.
Material, Adj. Having An Actual Existence, As Distinguished From An Imaginary One. Important.
The Orthodox Believers In God Are Divided Into Two Camps, One Of Which Maintains That The Existence Of God Is As Demonstrable As Any Mathematical Proposition, While The Other Asserts That His Existence Is Not Demonstrable To The Intellect.
You've Always Lived A Life Of Pretense, Not A Real Life-- A Simulated Existence, Not A Genuine Existence. Everything About You, Everything You Are, Has Always Been Pretense, Never Genuine, Never Real.
I Might As Well Doubt Of My Own Being, As Of The Being Of Those Things I Actually See And Feel.
The Question Between The Materialists And Me Is Not, Whether Things Have A Real Existence Out Of The Mind Of This Or That Person, But Whether They Have An Absolute Existence, Distinct From Being Perceived By God, And Exterior To All Minds.
