Such at least is the tendency and purpose of that noetic influence which the celestial substance imparts to the human soul; but it is realized only to a very small degree.
Nous is immortal; but the individual Sokrates, considered asnoetic or intellectual, can no more be immortal than the same individual considered as sentient or reminiscent.
Though the noetic process is distinct from sense, yet without sense it cannot take place in man.
Such logical distinctions as those here noticed (they might be multiplied without number) it belongs to Nous or the noetic function to cognize.
It thus appears clear that Aristotle restricts the Nous or noetic function in man to the matters of sense and experience, physical or mental, and that he considers the phantasm to be an essential accompaniment of the cogitative act.
We have thus to study the noetic function according to the manifestations of it that we find in man, and to a certain extent in some other privileged animals.
In Aristotle's view, sensible perception is a separate source of knowledge, accompanied with judgment and discrimination, independent of the noetic function.
I would employ the word noetic to express all those cognitions which originate in the mind itself.
Empiricism on the other hand is satisfied with the type of noetic unity that is humanly familiar.
Since we are bound to treat it as respectfully as noetic monism, until the facts shall have tipped the beam, we find that our pragmatism, tho originally nothing but a method, has forced us to be friendly to the pluralistic view.
I, A Noetic Prelude to a United World (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1972).
The noetic faculty is simply a regulative faculty; it furnishes the laws under which we compare and judge, but it does not supply any original elements of knowledge.
The eternal types were first created in the noetic world, and the physical objects on earth, perceptible by the senses, were made in their likeness.
