originant

Updated: May 17, 2025

But when he turns from his perceiving and thinking to his willing self he becomes for the first time aware of something deeper than the mere objective presentations of consciousness; he obtains a direct intuition of an originant, causative, and independent self-existence. He will have attained in short to the knowledge of a noumenon, and of the only knowable noumenon.

H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill - English Men of Letters: Coleridge