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>>18764753

uh Schopenhauer does not claim that a human can know themself as a thing-in-itself, if that's what you're saying.

He says the closest we can come to understanding it is by introspecting upon the feeling of willing - but this introspective consciousness still veils the thing-in-itself behind temporality, which is the form of inner sense. Consciousness of the thing-in-itself is not only impossible to achieve, but impossible to even conceive.