Crossword-Solution: DIANOETIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dianoetic | a. | Pertaining to the discursive faculty, its acts or products. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DIANOETIC (5)
Rare jargon we made of it; talking of cosmothetie idealism or hypothetical dualism, of noetic and dianoetic principles, of hylozoism and hypostasis, and demonstrating the most undemonstrable propositions by appeals to the law of contradiction or of excluded middle.
The correlatives _noetic_ and _dianoetic_, says Hamilton, would afford the best philosophic designation of these two faculties; the knowledge attained by the former is an "intuitive principle"--a truth at first hand; that obtained by the latter is a "demonstrative proposition"--a truth at second hand.
But the aim is after all the life of the intellect, and the "dianoetic" virtues are superior to the practical.
The dianoetic virtues are the higher, because in them man's special function alone is in operation, and also because the thinking man most resembles God, whose life is a life of pure thought.
DIANOETIC, d[=i]-a-n[=o]-et'ik, _adj._ capable of thought, thinking: belonging to the ratiocinative faculties of the mind.