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  • Of or pertaining to the understanding; mental; intellectual.

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  • adjective obsolete Of or pertaining to the understanding.

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  • adjective obsolete Of or relating to the understanding.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek νοηματικός (noēmatikos, "rational, of or related to thought"). See noetic.

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Examples

  • Nevertheless, our noematic specification meets the requirements of local epoché, as it does not rely on the existence of a particular perceptual object.

    Edmund Husserl Beyer, Christian 2007

  • However, it is not fully clear how Husserl would view the relationship between either act-matter or noematic sense quite generally and such semantic correlates of ordinary language sentences that some would identify as the contents of states of mind reported in them.

    Consciousness and Intentionality Siewert, Charles 2006

  • Ultimately, however, Nishida comes to posit Absolute Nothingness as the “place” (basho) that embraces both subjective (noetic) and objective (noematic) polarities of reality.

    The Kyoto School Davis, Bret W. 2006

  • Had I but the leisure to bite into the standard meter, I would slap myself noisily on the thighs while reading, and such delightful chapters as "Uncovering the final sense of science by becoming immersed in science qua noematic phenomenon" or "The problems constituting the transcendental ego" might even cause me to die of laughter, a blow straight to the heart as I sit slumped in my plush armchair, with plum juice or thin driblets of chocolate oozing from the corners of my mouth...

    Archive 2009-03-01 enowning 2009

  • Had I but the leisure to bite into the standard meter, I would slap myself noisily on the thighs while reading, and such delightful chapters as "Uncovering the final sense of science by becoming immersed in science qua noematic phenomenon" or "The problems constituting the transcendental ego" might even cause me to die of laughter, a blow straight to the heart as I sit slumped in my plush armchair, with plum juice or thin driblets of chocolate oozing from the corners of my mouth...

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  • noematic nucleus” in Ideas, uniquely determines reference, i.e., intentional object.

    Edmund Husserl Beyer, Christian 2007

  • Nearly as interesting are Heidegger’s use of Husserl’s noematic obejctivity, noesis and making present.

    Archive 2008-07-01 enowning 2008

  • Nearly as interesting are Heidegger’s use of Husserl’s noematic obejctivity, noesis and making present.

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  • (For the claim that noematic sense is contextually determined respective meaning rather than general meaning function ” which rules out any internalist reading; see Section 4 below ” cf. Husserliana, vol. XX/1, pp. 74-78; see also Husserliana, vol. XXVI, p. 212, fn.)

    Edmund Husserl Beyer, Christian 2007

  • In 1934 Nishida writes: “Reality is being and at the same time nothingness; it is being-and-nothingness [u-soku-mu], nothingness-and-being; it is both subjective and objective, noetic and noematic.

    The Kyoto School Davis, Bret W. 2006

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  • "Had I but the leisure to bite into the standard meter, I would slap myself noisily on the thighs while reading, and such delightful chapters as "Uncovering the final sense of science by becoming immersed in science qua noematic phenomenon" or "The problems constituting the transcendental ego" might even cause me to die of laughter, a blow straight to the heart as I sit slumped in my plush armchair, with plum juice or thin driblets of chocolate oozing from the corners of my mouth..."

    The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, translated by Alison Anderson, p 58 of the Europa Editions paperback

    September 28, 2012