What does noesis mean?

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Noun
  1. (in psychology) cognition, the functioning of intellect.
  2. (in Greek philosophy) the exercise of reason.
  3. (in metaphysical philosophy) the consciousness component of Neotic Theory, which concerns the duality of noesis and noema.
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The intentional process of consciousness is called noesis, while its ideal content is called noema.
Since both noesis and dianoia correspond to invariable objects, the line's account of rationality is not a counterpart to Aristotle's practical rationality.
Noesis has career opportunities for sales engineers and image processing development engineers.
Noesis regularly takes on trainees from masters university programmes or from engineering schools.
Noesis is outstanding in its reactivity to user requests.
It becomes the noeton when it touches and intuitively apprehends its objects so that noesis and the noeton are the same.

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