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dianoia

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dianoia [ˌdaɪəˈnɔɪə]
n Philosophy
1. (Philosophy) perception and experience regarded as lower modes of knowledge Compare noesis
2. (Philosophy) the faculty of discursive reasoning
[from Greek; see dianoetic]

dianoia
the capacity for, process of, or result of discursive thinking. — dianoetic, adj.
See also: Thinking


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Pagels contrasts gnostic epinoia, the imaginative elucidation of experience, with orthodox dianoia, which focuses on the more obvious, albeit not necessarily literal, meaning of texts.
But Meredith would have agreed with Northrop Frye, who thinks dramatic comedy centers upon dianoia, a theme or topic of thought, and feels that social comedy approaches the condition of the symposium.
The Platonists already distinguished between these two types of knowing, denoting ratiocination or logical reasoning by the term dianoia and contrasting it with the direct perception of truth they termed episreme.
 
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