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Capacity for, process of or result of discursive thinking; opinion.

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  • Thereafter thought, weighing the truth or falseness of the notion, determines what is true: and this explains the Greek word for thought, dianoia, which is derived from...
  • The objects of dianoia are then, roughly, the objects of the sciences.
  • Given Plato's examples, the capacity of dianoia seems distinctive of scientific or mathematical reasoning.
  • (Ratio and intellectus recall in some ways dianoia and noesis in Plato's famous image of the divided line.)
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