 Attempting to resolve some of the key intellectual debates of his era, Kant argued that "Noumena" (fundamentally unknowable things-in-themselves) must be distinguished from "Phenomena" (the world as it appears to the mind).Kant, commonly misconceived as arguing that humans cannot have direct access to reality, but only to the contents of their minds, argued rather that what is experienced in the mind is reality to us.Phenomenology grew out of this conception of phenomena, and studies the meaning of isolated phenomena as directly connected to our minds.