Noesis

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Noesis is a Greek word meaning "the ability to sense or know something immediately". In phenomenology, it is an act of consciousness. "Thinking", "loving", "hating", "imagining" are all verbs applying to what minds do. One would never call "loving" a belief, because it is something you do, not something you merely hold to be true.

See also

• Noema
• Phenomenology
• Franz Brentano
• Edmund Husserl
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• Hanspeter Kyburz

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Noesis is also:

• The name of the Thessaloniki Science Center & Technology Museum, Greece.
• The name of a Philadelphia-area rapper and the front man for the band, Philadelphia Slick.

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