dianoetic

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Virtues are divided into ethical and intellectual (dianoetic); and so are the contrary vices.

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  1. Thinking; intellectual; of or pertaining to the discursive faculty.
  2. That part of logic winch treats of ratiocination. Sir William Hamilton proposed to extend the meaning of the term so as to include the whole science of the laws of thought. I would employ … dianoetic to denote the operations of the discursive, elaborative, or comparative faculty. Sir W. Hamilton, Metaph., xxvii.

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  • Virtues are divided into ethical and intellectual (dianoetic); and so are the contrary vices. —  A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy
  • But the aim is after all the life of the intellect, and the "dianoetic" virtues are superior to the practical. —  A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy
  • Rare jargon we made of it; talking of cosmothetie idealism or hypothetical dualism, of noetic and dianoetic principles, of hylozoism and hypostasis, and demonstrating the most undemonstrable propositions by appeals to the law of contradiction or of excluded middle. —  Beulah
 

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  1. from Greek διανοητικός, of or for thinking, intellectual, from διανοητός, verbal adjective of διανοείσθαι, think of, think over, purpose, from διἀ, through, + νοεῐν, think, from νόος, contr. νον̆ς, mind, thought.
 

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