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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DIANOIA

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PRONUNCIATION OF DIANOIA

dianoia  [ˌdaɪəˈnɔɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DIANOIA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dianoia is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DIANOIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Dianoia

Dianoia is a term used by Plato for a type of thinking, specifically about mathematical and technical subjects. It is the capacity for, process of, or result of discursive thinking, in contrast with the immediate apprehension that is characteristic of noesis. In Aristotle, knowledge is further divided into the theoretical, and the practical, which includes techne and phronesis.

Definition of dianoia in the English dictionary

The definition of dianoia in the dictionary is the faculty of discursive reasoning.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DIANOIA


annoyer
əˈnɔɪə
Breuer
ˈbrɔɪə
cherimoya
ˌtʃɛrɪˈmɔɪə
coir
kɔɪə
deployer
dɪˈplɔɪə
destroyer
dɪˈstrɔɪə
employer
ɪmˈplɔɪə
enjoyer
ɪnˈdʒɔɪə
Goya
ˈɡɔɪə
hoya
ˈhɔɪə
hyponoia
ˌhaɪpəˈnɔɪə
loir
lɔɪə
metanoia
ˌmetəˈnɔɪə
metasequoia
ˌmɛtəsɪˈkwɔɪə
multiemployer
ˌmʌltɪɪmˈplɔɪə
oyer
ɔɪə
paranoia
ˌpærəˈnɔɪə
sequoia
sɪˈkwɔɪə
soya
ˈsɔɪə
toyer
ˈtɔɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DIANOIA

diamondback turtle
diamondiferous
diamonds
diamorphine
diamyl
Diana
diandrous
diandry
dianodal
dianoetic
dianthus
diapason
diapasonal
diapasonic
diapause
diapedesis
diapedetic
diapente
diaper
diaper rash

WORDS THAT END LIKE DIANOIA

Algeria
Arabia
Asia
Australia
Austria
Bahasa Indonesia
Bolivia
Bosnia
Bulgaria
California
Colombia
Columbia
criteria
Croatia
Estonia
Georgia
giant sequoia
India
Pistoia
xanthochroia

Synonyms and antonyms of dianoia in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «dianoia» into 25 languages

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The translations of dianoia from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dianoia» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

dianoia
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

diánoia
570 millions of speakers

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dianoia
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

dianoia
380 millions of speakers
ar

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dianoia
280 millions of speakers

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dianoia
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dianoia
270 millions of speakers

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dianoia
260 millions of speakers

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dianoia
220 millions of speakers

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Dianoia
190 millions of speakers

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dianoia
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

dianoia
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

dianoia
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dianoia
85 millions of speakers
vi

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dianoia
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

dianoia
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

डायनानोआ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dianoia
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dianoia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Dianoia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

dianoia
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Dianoia
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Διάνοια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dianoia
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

dianoia
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

dianoia
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dianoia

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DIANOIA»

The term «dianoia» is normally little used and occupies the 128.978 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DIANOIA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dianoia

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIANOIA»

Discover the use of dianoia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dianoia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Essays on Aristotle's Poetics
The language here clearly recalls the paired ethos and dianoia of the Ethics. But just a few lines later ethos seems to have become inclusive, for now it alone (as a part of the play) makes us call the "people in action" (the prattontes) "of a ...
Amélie Rorty, 1992
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Aristotle on Comedy: Towards a Reconstruction of Poetics II
Chapter XIII: 'Dianoia' in Comedy (a) 'Dianoia' in Aristotle As in tragedy, dianoia is the point at which rhetoric impinges on comedy; it is the means of intellectual expression and cognition. How a man reasons about an event will be determined  ...
Richard Janko, 1984
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Self-Knowledge in Plato's Phaedrus
The palinode is very clear that human beings cannot see the Beings directly; they can only recollect them, and anamnesis is closely associated with both dianoia and discourse (249b5-c6). There is no pure intellectual intuition for fallen souls.
Charles L. Griswold Jr., 2010
4
Light from the East: Theology, Science, and the Eastern ...
The early Fathers considered the human person not only in the light of the dualism between body and discursive reason (dianoia, or intellect in its contemporary sense, the mind). They made a subtle distinction between dianoia and nous, ...
Alexei V. Nesteruk
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Being and Logos: Reading the Platonic Dialogues
Here the analogy with dianoia clearly protrudes: episteme is presented as grasping each thing itself just as dianoia, in its beginning, poses each thing itself (e.g., the beautiful itself and the ugly itself) over against the mixing-up of opposites in ...
John Sallis, 1996
6
Contextualizing Classics: Ideology, Performance, Dialogue : ...
4. dianoia 'train of thought', applying primarily to Homer's train of thought, not to the rhapsode s: 530blO, c3, d3. The rhapsode can enter into this train or thought at any point of the continuum that is the narrative. He can enter into it midstream,  ...
John Peradotto, Thomas M. Falkner, Nancy Felson, 1999
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Who Is Phaedrus?: Keys to Plato's Dyad Masterpiece
is the recognition that dianoia's function in the Republic still operates in Phaedrus sans an obvious declaration thereof. In Phaedrus, as in other dialogues, Plato uses the term dianoia desultorily. Plato uses the term dianoia early, and has the ...
Marshell Carl Bradley, 2012
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Plato's Cratylus: Argument, Form, and Structure
“Fair (țĮȜȩȞ) is more difficult to bring down to the level of understanding ( țĮIJĮȞȠÁıĮȚ),” according to Socrates, who explains it as signifying scientific understanding, dianoia. He pauses here to ask Hermogenes a serious question for the first ...
Michael W. Riley, 2005
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Medieval Philosophy and the Classical Tradition: In Islam, ...
Conclusion The consequences of this conception of dianoia for Proclus' systematic philosophy cannot be ignored. Being and thought for Proclus are dynamic, from the highest to the lowest levels of Being. His system traces the motion of a ...
John Inglis, 2005
10
The Transformation of Plato's Republic
We will see that Book 1 exemplifies eikasia (thinking in images about the visible world), Books 2-4 pistis (observing the visible world itself), Books 5-7 dianoia ( images of the intelligible world) and as much of noesis (intellectual intuition) as can ...
Kenneth Dorter, 2006

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIANOIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dianoia is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Loving God with All Thy Mind
The Greek word used in Mark 12:30 for “mind” is dianoia, richly meaning to love God thoroughly (dia-) with all your way of thinking and ... «Meridian Magazine, Nov 13»
2
Two Share Aquino Prize
She restarted ASIAM, the campus Asian American literary magazine, and is editor of Dianoia, BC's undergraduate philosophy journal. «Boston College Chronicle, May 13»
3
Haidt's Problem With Plato
Haidt's “reasoning” corresponds to what Plato calls dianoia, the process of logically deriving conclusions from given premises. Such logic yields ... «New York Times, Oct 12»
4
Discourse, Truth and Power
Radicularly contaminated by the Greek notions of logos and dianoia, the Latin notion of discursus incorporated the meaning of thought, ... «NEWS JUNKIE POST, Jul 12»
5
Atheist philosopher AC Grayling turns down Assisi invitation
... philosopher Julia Kristeva, the Italian professor Bodei Remo and Mexico's Guillermo Hurtado, founder of the philosophy magazine, Dianoia. «Catholic Herald Online, Oct 11»
6
Hybrid Education 2.0
Reading your piece would make Socrates reach for the hemlock once again; Plato would weep at the reduction of dianoia to techne; Kant ... «Inside Higher Ed, Dec 09»

REFERENCE
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