noesis

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(Ratio and intellectus recall in some ways dianoia and noesis in Plato's famous image of the divided line.)

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  • (Ratio and intellectus recall in some ways dianoia and noesis in Plato's famous image of the divided line.) —  Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa]
  • While not everybody module unification backwards whatever module if your noesis is a noesis and not meet a peasant. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • Consider your noesis (or inability) to attain the repairs yourself, evilness having the sellers bushel them. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • Ekstasis, noesis, alacritous, architectonic, hybritistic, ascesis epektatic, and other such words (the majority accompanied by red underlining from my Word program) lie thick on these pages, as do passages such as: "Odysseus is a philosophical exemplar in his solitary apartness, in his large capacity for travel to extreme places both within himself and the numinous regions, in his burgeoning passivity to divine exigence, in his stripping, in his daimonic affliction, but above all in his affective apokatastatic nostaligia …" —  NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
  • (nomesis) of generation, for to ponder is the same as to consider; or, if you would rather, here is noesis, the very word just now mentioned, which is neou esis (the desire of the new); the word neos implies that the world is always in process of creation. —  Cratylus
 

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  1. Greek noēsis, understanding, from noein, to perceive, from nous, mind.
 

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