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Noesis
//nəʊˈiːsɪs// noun
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Noun
- 1 Cognition, the functioning of intellect. countable, uncountable
- 2 the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning wordnet
- 3 The exercise of reason. Greek, countable, uncountable
- 4 The consciousness component of noetics, which concerns the duality of noesis and noema. countable, uncountable
"Husserl calls the noesis the meaning-giving element of the act, and the noema he calls the meaning given in the act.""
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek νόησις (nóēsis, “concept”, “idea”, “intelligence”, “understanding”), from νοεῖν (noeîn, “to intend”, “to perceive”, “to see”, “to understand”) (from νοῦς (noûs, “mind”, “thought”), from νόος (nóos)) + -σις (-sis), suffix forming nouns of action.
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