Dividing the world

I see things. You see things. We all see things.

There’s a chair.

I see an ugly chair. You see an expensive antique furiture. We all see a chair.

I see something to sit on. You see an investment. We all see a chair.

We all experience and perceive a chair.

But what is that chair?

The chair is what we see. We all see a chair. We all see the same chair. We all see different chairs.

Easy enough to explain what a chair is.

Here we must explain two different worlds.

The world we perceive. Everything that comes to our senses is what reality to us is.

This is called Phenomenon

But there’s another world…

The world beyond our perception, beyond our knowledge.

The world we will never know--noumenon.  The noumenon are inhabited by the Noumena. Noumena are things in themselves.

What we perceive  are only properties of the chair; we do not percieve the real chair. We will not be able to perceive and apprehend  the real chair--the thing in itself.

Crazy, no such things as noumenon.  

Then if there’s no noumeon; we know everything. Because everything we know, we perceive--apriori, a posteriori.

But we know, we do not know everything; we can not know everything.

Noumenon. The world beyond our perception. The world we will not perceive but we know it must exist.

Noumenon is  Heaven!

Or Hell...

Or God

Philo indigestion :-)