現げん象しょう界かい

noun

phenomenal world; world of phenomena

Philosophical term, especially in Kantian and Buddhist contexts, referring to the world as it appears to us, as opposed to the noumenal world (本体界).

• カントは現げん象しょう界かいと物もの自じ体たいを区く別べつした。

  Kant distinguished between the phenomenal world and the thing-in-itself.

• 仏ぶっ教きょうでは、現げん象しょう界かいは仮かりの姿すがたに過すぎないと説とく。

  Buddhism teaches that the phenomenal world is merely a provisional appearance.