mental object vs thing-in-itself

thing-in-itself vs mental object

mental object and thing-in-itself both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mental object	Yes	No	No	No
thing-in-itself	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, thing-in-itself is a hyponym of mental object; that is, thing-in-itself is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than mental object:

mental object: the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
thing-in-itself: the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception

Other hyponyms of mental object include tradition, object, food, food for thought, intellectual nourishment, noumenon, universe, universe of discourse, issue, matter, subject, topic, issue, idea, thought, center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum, wisdom, internal representation, mental representation, representation, belief, kenosis, disbelief, unbelief, heresy, unorthodoxy, end, goal, education, experience, acculturation, culture, lore, traditional knowledge, ignorance, domain, knowledge base, knowledge domain, metaknowledge.

mental object (noun)	thing-in-itself (noun)
the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned	the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception

Difference between mental object and thing-in-itself

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