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Dianoia

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agr. diánoia

Platonismus

Dianoia ist bei Platon das Denkvermögen der Seele, das im Unterschied zum (göttlichen) Nous nur diskursiv operiert und nur Abbild des Nous ist.)

In Platonism, (Greek: διάνοια) is the human cognitive faculty associated with the BC portion of the analogy of the divided line and related to discursive thinking about mathematical and technical subjects. It stands in contrast to the immediate, cognitive process of intuitive apprehension or noesis.

In Aristotle, dianoia is subdivided into theoretical knowledge (technē) and practical knowledge (phronēsis).

Tabular summary of the divided line

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Segment Correlation Affection of the psyche Type of object Method of the psyche or eye Relative truth and reality
DE Noesis (νόησις) Knowledge (Understanding): understanding of only the Intelligible (νοητόν) Only Ideas, which are all given existence and truth by the Good itself (τὸ αὐτὸ ἀγαθόν) The Psyche examines all hypotheses by the Dialectic making no use of likenesses, always moving towards a First Principle Highest
CD Dianoia (διάνοια) Knowledge (Thought): thought that recognizes but is not only of the Intelligible Some Ideas, specifically those of Geometry and Number The Psyche assumes hypotheses while making use of likenesses, always moving towards final conclusions High
BC Pistis (πίστις) Opinion (Belief): belief concerning visible things Visible things (ὁρατά) The eye makes probable predictions upon observing visible things Low
AB Eikasia (εἰκασία) Opinion (Imagination): conjectures concerning likenesses Likenesses of visible things (εἰκόνες) The eye makes guesses upon observing likenesses of visible things Lowest


See also

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  • Epistemology
  • Theory of Forms

References

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  1. Boyle 1973, p. 2.
  2. Hendrix (2015), p. 114.
  3. Blackburn (2016).

Works cited

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