dianoia

[ dahy-uh-noi-uh ]

noun

, Greek Philosophy.

1. the mental faculty used in discursive reasoning.

dianoia

/ ˌdaɪəˈnɔɪə /

noun

1. perception and experience regarded as lower modes of knowledge Compare noesis
2. the faculty of discursive reasoning

Word History and Origins

Origin of dianoia¹

< Greek diánoia the intellect, a thought, notion, belief, equivalent to dia- dia- + no ( eîn ) to think + -ia -ia

Word History and Origins

Origin of dianoia¹

from Greek; see dianoetic

Example Sentences

It was not published till the Second Empire was more than half-way through, but it seems to have been written considerably earlier; and as it is equally remarkable for lexis and for dianoia, it may, on the double ground, be best attached to this chapter, though Fromentin was younger than any one else here dealt with, and belonged, in fact, to the generation of our later, though not latest, constituents.

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It is the 'avant toute chose' that matters, not as a profession of faith—we do not greatly like professions of faith—but as the guarantee of the universal in the particular, of the dianoia in the episode.

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There is here the first passage of dianoia or general reflexion of life, which later became a regular feature of tragedy.

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The middle part of the rational soul is called by Plato, dianoia, and is that power which, as we have already said, reasons scientifically, deriving the principles of its reasoning, which are axioms from intellect.

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And the extremity of the rational soul is opinion, which in his Sophista he defines to be that power which knows the conclusion of dianoia.

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