Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dianoetic"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dianoetic \Di`a*no*et"ic\, a. [Gr. ?; dia` through + ? to
revolve in the mind.] (Metaph.)
Pertaining to the discursive faculty, its acts or products.
I would employ . . . dianoetic to denote the operation
of the discursive, elaborative, or comparative faculty.
--Sir W.
Hamilton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dianoetic
adj : (philosophy) proceeding to a conclusion by reason or
argument rather than intuition [syn: {discursive}]
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