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 dianoein, meaning to think and discriminate.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus] Reference

The objects of dianoia are then, roughly, the objects of the sciences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology] Reference

Given Plato's examples, the capacity of dianoia seems distinctive of scientific or mathematical reasoning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology] Reference

(Ratio and intellectus recall in some ways dianoia and noesis in Plato's famous image of the divided line.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa]] Reference

The step from conviction to dianoia, however, is taken by far fewer individuals than those who step from eikasia to conviction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology] Reference

Or, similarly, the objects of dianoia and nous may be identical: the philosopher thinks about them differently from the scientist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology] Reference

Precisely what to make of the objects in the third section, the faculty of dianoia, and the nature of hypotheses are matters of great controversy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology] Reference

If one assumes that here Forms are first posited, as seems required if we are to understand the descent from nous to secure the Forms, then the objects of dianoia and pistis cannot be the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology] Reference

Rather, there is only the reasoning (dianoia) and governing principle (hêgemonikon) which is capable of opposite states and thus becomes either virtue or vice (Plutarch, On moral virtue 441 C-D).    From Wordnik.com.  [Episteme and Techne] Reference

The same expression will, depending on the state of the agent, have different referents: the images; the material objects; some immaterial, abstract intermediary, or a mathematical in the case of dianoia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology] Reference

Whereas before the intelligible had been the undivided field of gnôsis and epistêmê, now it is subdivided into the fields of mathematical or deductive reasoning (dianoia) and the grasping of the unhypothetical beginning point (nous).    From Wordnik.com.  [Episteme and Techne] Reference

(theôrêtikê dianoia) attains truth and falsity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Episteme and Techne] Reference

The faculty of rational cognition includes nous and dianoia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

"All science (dianoia) is either practical, poetical or theoretical".    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

(praktikê dianoia) we attain truth and falsity with respect to action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Episteme and Techne] Reference

In the larger sense of the word, he makes philosophy coextensive with science, or reasoning: "All science (dianoia) is either practical, poetical or theoretical.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

The three faculties here alluded to as reason, contemplation, and intuition are designated by Eriugena as internal sense (dianoia), ratiocination (logos), and intellect (nous).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference

Kalon is to kaloun ta pragmata -- this is mind (nous or dianoia); which is also the principle of beauty; and which doing the works of beauty, is therefore rightly called the beautiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cratylus] Reference

Theme is not dianoia; it is not, that is, simply the novelist’s speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plot and pattern] Reference

In a similar vein he says that the universe is an image of reality but does not exist by discursive thought (dianoia) nor by contrivance of craft (epitechnêsis) (II.    From Wordnik.com.  [Episteme and Techne] Reference

˜objects™ of dianoia, depending on how one understands the participial phrase “using as images the things that were imitated before”: 1) The objects of this segment are some kind of ˜abstract™ image of ordinary material things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology] Reference

That which we have is dianoia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pneumatologia] Reference