But the aim is after all the life of the intellect, and the "dianoetic" virtues are superior to the practical.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy] Reference

Judgment or arrangement was likewise dichotomized into axiomatic judgment (enunciations) and dianoetic judgment (reasoning processes).    From Wordnik.com.  [RAMISM] Reference

Descending the line furnishes justification for the claims of the dianoetic sciences and beliefs about the material world, including the states of affairs in actual cities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology] Reference

Virtues are divided into ethical and intellectual (dianoetic); and so are the contrary vices.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy] Reference

This intelligence then, either derives the principles of reasoning from intellect, which principles are axioms, and then through the dianoetic power produces demonstrative reasoning, the conclusions of which are always true and never false.    From Wordnik.com.  [Works] Reference

Consequently, for Aristotle the highest happiness is to be found not in the ethical virtues of the active life, but in the contemplative or philosophic life of speculation, in which the dianoetic virtues of understanding, science, and wisdom are exercised.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

It is dianoetic and the intellect is noetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas] Reference

Virtues are either ethical or dianoetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference