The Thing-in-Itself

While wife E. was working next to me last night on a bibliography, I wrote a philosophical article on (click here) The Thing-in-Itself. My (draft) article makes a simple point, yet a point, I think, with far-reaching implications: the all-important philosophical thing-in-itself does not exist. Or to put it quite another way: the way in which dictionaries define things today is all wrong. And if something that basic is "all wrong", then everything else must go wrong. OBSERVATION: The thing-in-itself has been a classic idea in philosophy, in particular since Kant. However, it has spawned, in my view, the most besetting problems of philosophy.