Definitions
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek νόησις (noēsis, "concept”, “idea”, “intelligence”, “understanding"), from νοεῖν (noein, "to intend”, “to perceive”, “to see”, “to understand") (from νοῦς (nous, "mind”, “thought"), from νόος (noos)) + -σις (-sis), suffix forming nouns of action. (Wiktionary)
- Greek noēsis, understanding, from noein, to perceive, from nous, mind. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“(Ratio and intellectus recall in some ways dianoia and noesis in Plato's famous image of the divided line.)”
“Who knows, maybe this is modify feat to noesis the incoming procreation of the BBC's iPlayer?”
“The prospect of a “return” to commentary, whatever forms it may take, renders conspicuous and questionable some of the most hallowed and taken-for-granted assumptions about the nature of scholarly practice, for instance: the distinction between primary and secondary text; the primacy of noesis over poesis, or thinking over making; the synthetic, thesis-driven, and polemical character of understanding; and so forth.”
“Not umteen eld ago, fill had to pay large amounts to check movies online and had to be noesis with watching virtuous a soft leave of the flick.”
“The giver of the name wanted to express his longing of the soul, for the original name was neoesis, and not noesis.”
“The philosophical analysis of this immediacy is phenom - enology, itself based on a double binary structure of noesis/noema and formal/material.”
“* Ou gar ti ekineito par 'auto, ou thumos, ouk epithumia allou paren auto, anabebekoti; all' ou de logos, ou de tis noesis; ou d 'holos autos, ei dei kai touto legein; all' hosper harpastheis e enthousiasas hesuche en eremo katastasei gegenetai atremei, te autou ousia oudamou apoklinon, oude peri auton strephomenos, hestos pante kai hoion stasis genomenos;: [4949] 1”
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cathari Sounds like an internet meme to me. "Oh noesis!" Oct 15, 2007