Definitions

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  • noun The cognitive process; cognition.

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  • noun The consciousness side to duality of noesis and noema.

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  • noun the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

Etymologies

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[Greek noēsis, understanding, from noein, to perceive, from nous, mind.]

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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.

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Examples

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  • The Lab posted a recording journeying of the New royalty Times R&D work this morning, where the rattling forward-looking production colossus is exploring structure to have its noesis ...

    The New York Times envisions version 2.0 of the newspaper » Nieman Journalism Lab 2009

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

    Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa] Miller, Clyde Lee 2009

  • October 5, 2009 at 2:02 pm kitteh haz an pinkee noesis peejay!

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  • 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.

    Spy Screw | Surveillance 2008

  • 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.

    Glossing is a Glorious Thing -- Call for Papers Nicola Masciandaro 2008

  • Who knows, maybe this is modify feat to noesis the incoming procreation of the BBC's iPlayer?

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  • 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.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Nicola Masciandaro 2008

  • The giver of the name wanted to express his longing of the soul, for the original name was neoesis, and not noesis.

    The CRATYLUS Plato 1975

  • The philosophical analysis of this immediacy is phenom - enology, itself based on a double binary structure of noesis/noema and formal/material.

    STRUCTURALISM PETER CAWS 1968

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  • Sounds like an internet meme to me. "Oh noesis!"

    October 15, 2007