Definition of Dianoetic

1. Adjective. Proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition.

Exact synonyms: Discursive
Category relationships: Philosophy
Similar to: Logical
Derivative terms: Discursiveness

Definition of Dianoetic

1. a. Pertaining to the discursive faculty, its acts or products.

Definition of Dianoetic

1. Adjective. Pertaining to reason or thinking; intellectual. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Dianoetic

1. Pertaining to the discursive faculty, its acts or products. "I would employ . . . Dianoetic to denote the operation of the discursive, elaborative, or comparative faculty." (Sir W. Hamilton) Origin: Gr.; through + to revolve in the mind. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dianoetic

diana
dianalytic
diandria
diandries
diandrous
diandry
dianetic
dianhydride
dianhydrides
dianhydrogalactitol
dianion
dianions
dianisidine
dianium
dianodal
dianoetic (current term)
dianoetically
dianoialogy
dianthus
dianthuses
diaoyudaoite
diapase
diapases
diapasm
diapasms
diapason
diapason stop
diapasons
diapause
diapaused

Literary usage of Dianoetic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Types of Ethical Theory by James Martineau (1889)
"dianoetic ETHICS. OF assignable extrinsic grounds for the preference involved in every moral decision, we have examined the first and most plausible : we ..."

2. The Description of Greece by Pausanias (1824)
"When Saturn, however, is called intellect, Jupiter has the order of the dianoetic part: and when again, Saturn is called the ..."

3. A History of Philosophy: From Thales to the Present Time by Friedrich Ueberweg, George Sylvester Morris, Henry Boynton Smith, Noah Porter, Vincenzo Botta (1891)
"dianoetic virtue is the correct functioning of the theoretical reason, ... The dianoetic virtues are reason, science, art, and practical intelligence. ..."

4. Ethics: An Investigation of the Facts and Laws of the Moral Life by Wilhelm Max Wundt (1897)
"Thus only the ethical virtues are related to moral action, are virtues in our sense of the word; the dianoetic virtues are rather capacities; they may be in ..."

5. "Know Thyself" in Greek and Latin Literature by Eliza Gregory Wilkins (1917)
"... by which judgments are formed in relation to sense impressions, designated as dianoetic, and pure reason or intelligence, which he calls the ..."

6. Philosophy of Sir William Hamilton, Bart by William Hamilton (1860)
"It has not unfrequently becn employed to comprehend the third and fourth of the special functions above enumerated—to wit, the dianoetic and noetic. ..."

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