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noetic, a.2 and n.|nəʊˈɛtɪk|
[ad. Gr. νοητικ-ός, f. νόησις noesis.]
A. adj.
1. a. Of or pertaining to the mind or intellect; characterized by, or consisting in, mental or intellectual activity.
1653Waterhouse Apol. Learning 12 All Learning, whether Noetick or Manual, of book or hand, proceeds from God. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles iii. 92 Another attribute..of Pagan Philosophie is, that it be νοητικη, noetic or intelligent, i.e. comprehensive of the first and highest principles. 1852Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. 4 The noetic faculty, intellect proper, or place of principles. 1872Contemp. Rev. XX. 75 Noetic intuition involves some discursive thought. 1890Masson Edinb. Sketches 220 There was little in his mind of what may be called the purely noetic organ—that faculty which speculates, investigates [etc.]. 1907W. James Pragmatism v. 166 This is the hypothesis of noetic pluralism, which monists consider so absurd. 1925Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Oct. 106 In the following pages the word ‘noetic’ is used for brevity's sake instead of the more elaborate though more correct ‘noegenetic’. Ibid. 115 The tests..measure the ‘Noetic’ and the ‘Generative’ powers of the subject. 1957J. S. Huxley Relig. without Revelation (rev. ed.) ix. 204 Some new term..in which communicable mental activities play a predominant rôle. If so, I suggest the term noetic. Ibid., Religions are thus noetic organs of evolving man. 1972Encycl. Psychol. II. 327/2 Noetic superstructure, a term applied by strata theorists..to individual thought processes (power of abstraction, judgment, logical reasoning, etc.) that take place, together with voluntary activities, above the endothymic basis.
b. In phenomenology, that which is concerned with or pertains to the act of thinking or perceiving (see noesis c). Cf. noematic a. b.
1931[see noema]. 1943M. Farber Found. Phenomenology xvi. 526 This applies to the noetic side (‘I think’, ‘I experience’, etc.) as well as to the noematic side. 1969R. McKeon in R. Klibansky Contemp. Philos. III. 105 The difference of knower and known disappear in the description of the experiencing (or the ‘noetic’) and experienced (or the ‘noematic’).
2. Originating or existing in the mind or intellect; purely intellectual or abstract.
c1810Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 263 Reduce it to the noetic pentad, or universal form of contemplation. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xxi. (1859) II. 33 That the sensible or ectypal world..stands to the noetic or archetypal world..in the same relation [etc.]. 1881W. R. Smith O. Test. in Jewish Ch. 32 Those doctrines higher than reason, those noëtic truths, as they were called, of a divine philosophy.
3. Given to intellectual speculation. (See quots.)
1882Mozley Reminis. I. iii. 19 The new Oriel sect was declared to be Noetic, whatever that may mean. 1882Church Times 6 Oct. 674 The so called ‘Noetic’ school at Oriel was far advanced in Rationalism before Newman became a Fellow. 1893Month Dec. 563 It is the noetic school of Whately which is really responsible for this evil.
B. n.
1. A science of the intellect. Also pl.
1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 137 The universal Noetic, in which we require terms of most comprehension and least specific import. a1834― in Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 416 In short, a transcendental aesthetic, logic, and noetic. 1875T. Hill Order Stud. 1 Gymnastics, or care of the body; noetics, or training of the mind. 1931W. R. B. Gibson tr. Husserl's Ideas ii. iv. §59. 176 So too..we cannot suspend general Noetics, which expresses our essential insight into the rationality or irrationality of the judging activity generally.
2. That which has a purely intellectual existence or basis.
1854Maurice Mor. & Met. Philos. (ed. 2) 59 To separate that in man which is capable of converse with the noetic, the essentially pure, from that which is..earthly. 1876Wilder R. P. Knight's Symbolic Lang. 4 The end of which is the Knowledge of the First, the Lord, and the Noëtic.
3. A member of the noetic school (see A. 3).
1882M. Pattison in Academy 1 July 1 The old Oriel school—the Noetics—had no dogmas, and left no books. 1885― Mem. 78 The Noetics knew nothing of the philosophical movement which was taking place on the continent.
Hence noˈetical a.
1644Bp. Maxwell Prerog. Chr. Kings xiv. 137 In him who in sharpnesse of wit approacheth nearest to Angelicall and Noeticall spirits. 1661K. W. Conf. Charac., Pragm. Pulpit-filler (1860) 83 Their noetical faculties devoid of philosophick irradiations. a1688Cudworth Immut. Mor. (1731) 296 Those that arise from the pure noetical Energies of the Soul it self. 1931W. R. B. Gibson tr. Husserl's Ideas iii. iii. §87. 256 It is a long..way that leads from meaning, from ontological and noetical insights. |