[Dixielandjazz] Big Word or Typo? / Was "Leonard Feather"

Tom Duncan tduncan at bellatlantic.net
Fri Jan 17 10:18:01 PST 2003


In a message of Thu, 16 Jan 2003 16:50, Bob Williams signs himself as :

>>Bob Williams
The World's Most Modest Man and
The Noumenal Leader of the Wooden Nickel Jass Band
<http://wnjb.com> <<

Impressive language usage, indeed. Note the definition:

noumenal
a Kantian term that refers to the unknowable world as it is in itself.
According to Kant, we can only know the world as it appears to us, as a
phenomenon. We can never know it as it is in itself, as a noumenon. The
adjectival forms of these two words are "phenomenal" and "noumenal,"
respectively.

Regards,

Tom Duncan





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