The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word NOUMENA
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More clues leading to the result NOUMENA
- Only women answer about universal entities in philosophy
- Running around, university fellows needing answer for unknowable things
- One of us oddly missing that people are things in themselves according to Kant
- No university fellows heading up All Souls?
- Concept of things by themselves spread on a menu
- Confused man, one tackling universal entities in Kantian philosophy
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The straight part
We know that "things in themselves according to Kant" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case things in themselves according to kant = noumena.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does NOUMENA mean?
NOUMENA noun- A thing as it is independent of any conceptualization or perception by the human mind, postulated by practical reason but existing in a condition which is in principle unknowable and unexperienceable.