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dianoetic, a. and n. Metaph.|daɪənəʊˈɛtɪk|
[ad. Gr. διανοητικός of or pertaining to thinking, f. διανοητός, vbl. adj. from διανοέ-εσθαι to think, subst. the process of thought, f. δια- through, thoroughly + νοέ-ειν to think, suppose.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to thought; employing thought and reasoning; intellectual.
1677Gale Crt. Gentiles II. iii. 92 Dianoetic Philosophie, which is the assent to conclusions by discourse from first principes. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. vii. §34 A Dianoetic Academy, or seminary for free-thinkers. 1829Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. (1852) 4 The dianoetic or discursive faculty..the faculty of relations or comparison. 1885J. Martineau Types Eth. Th. II. ii. iii. §1. 518 The theories of the dianoetic moralists.
B. n. Metaph. (See quot.)
1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. (1877) II. xxxviii. 350, I would employ the word noetic..to express all those cognitions that originate in the mind itself, dianoetic to denote the operations of the Discursive, Elaborative, or Comparative Faculty. |