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Definition of Dianoetic
1. Adjective. Proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition.
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
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Medical Definition of Dianoetic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dianoetic
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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