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'.
那无非就是哲学家们习惯于叫做‘物自体’的东西，如今我们叫它是‘终极现实’。
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Some people believe that no one can see the thing in itself, because the mind does not transcend phenomena.
有人认为一个人永远不可能认识事物本身的本质，因为思想无法超越现象。
For Bergson, he notes, intuition "unites with the thing in itself and grasps it from the inside, in its uniqueness."
他注意到对于柏格森来说，直觉“能够本能地、直接地把握精神并进入精神意识的深处，抓住其独特性。”

'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.
十九世纪五十年代的美国经济中,唯一价值超过奴隶的就是土地,而且没有人能够真正对,美国北部的土地进行估值
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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.
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