noesis
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the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
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As such the gnostic sects made a duality out of the difference between the activities of the spirit ( nous ), called noesis (insight), and those of faith.
Its importance in the economy of salvation is discussed periodically in the Philokalia where as direct, personal knowledge of God ( noesis ; see also Noema ) it is distinguished from ordinary epistemological knowledge (episteme—i.
The distinction between "acts of thought" (noesis) and " intentional objects of thought" (noema) does not seem, therefore, to constitute an irreducible ground.
Thus, the correlation between noesis and noema becomes the first step in the constitution of analyses of consciousness.
In accordance with this mythological tradition, Plato, in Cratylus (407B), gave the etymology of her name as signifying “the mind of god”, theou noesis.