The corpus record

νό-ησις

noesis · ἡ

intelligence, understanding

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Where it lives

Enneads 239 · 11.27/10k
Metaphysics 23 · 2.93/10k
Cratylus 4 · 2.24/10k
Republic 12 · 1.35/10k
Eudemian Ethics 2 · 0.77/10k
Meditations 2 · 0.69/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7 · 0.65/10k
Epistles 1 · 0.59/10k
Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k
Laws 2 · 0.19/10k
Analytica priora et posteriora 1 · 0.18/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

νό-ησις · no-ēsis — LSJ

intelligence, understanding, processes of thought

intelligence, understanding, opp. αἴσθησις, Diog.Apoll. 3, al., Pl. Ti. 28a, etc.; νοήσει καὶ οὐκ ὄμμασι Id. R. 529b; superior to διάνοια, ib. 511d; including ἐπιστήμη and διάνοια, ib. 534a; ὁ νοῦς εἷς καὶ συνεχὴς ὥσπερ ἡ ν. Arist. de An. 407a7; ν. νοήσεως Id. Metaph. 1074b34: pl., processes of thought, Id. de An. 407a24, Pr. 917a39, Timo l.c.

II idea, concept

concrete, idea, concept, ἡ κοινὴ τοῦ θεοῦ ν. Epicur. Ep. 3p.59U.

In the wild

νοήσεως · noēseōs Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1998)
νοήσεως · noēseōs Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 2
νοήσεως · noēseōs Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 2
νόησις · noēsis Aristotle, Metaphysics book 10 (DIORISIS sentence 2551)
νόησιν · noēsin Aristotle, Metaphysics book 10 (DIORISIS sentence 2553)
νόησις · noēsis Aristotle, Metaphysics book 12 (DIORISIS sentence 3491)

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