noologicaladj.

1817 J. Bentham Chrestomathia Pt. II 145 By imagination, the idea and practice of logical, noological, metaphysical analysis—was deduced from that of physical.

a1832 J. Bentham Ess. Logic in Wks. (1843) VIII. 245/1 The leading words of many ethical, noological, or pathological works.

1854 Putnam's Monthly Mag. June 630/1 Ampère's scale, better than the others, makes a primary order of the cosmological and the noological sciences.

1885 Mind 10 478 A philosophical explanation of things must take the form of an expression of the activity..of the mind as a whole. The method of philosophy is not to be ‘psychological’ but ‘noölogical’.

1909 F. L. Pogson tr. R. Eucken Life of Spirit (ed. 2) 101 It is important to show that there is a world which lies within life itself, and to advance from the psychological treatment of it to the noological.

1913 W. T. Jones tr. R. Eucken Truth of Relig. (ed. 2) vii. 181 The foundation of religion must be of a noological and not of a speculative kind.

1959 M. Farber Naturalism & Subjectivism viii. 301 Scheler proposes a ‘noological’ method, which attempts to unite the methods of transcendental philosophy and transcendental psychology.

1961 Rev. Existential Psychol. & Psychiatry 1 3 Man's being in the world necessarily implies that there is meaning in the world, and it is this meaning that is sought in Logotherapy when to the biological and psychological aspects of man it adds the noological or spiritual.

1982 Hist. & Theory 21 172 The categories of value and of knowledge derive from and reflect a universal structure of noological substratum of human thought.

1998 P. T. P. Wong in P. T. P. Wong & P. S. Fry Human Quest for Meaning xviii. 365 Such behaviors as the quest for meaning, self-transcendence, and taking a heroic stand in the face of suffering are assumed to occur only in the noetic, or noological, dimension.