noetics

[noh-et-iks]

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. the science of the intellect or of pure thought; reasoning.

Word History and Origins

Origin of noetics¹

First recorded in 1870–75; noetic, -ics

Example Sentences

The book’s author, Katherine Solomon, is a leading researcher in noetics — the science of parapsychology — and the crux of her thesis is explosive and radical, centering around the concept of nonlocal consciousness, or the notion that our brains are not autonomous machines but rather receptors that acquire consciousness externally.

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Chris Roe and Michael Daw, two leading noetics researchers, published a widely discussed study last year proposing this very thing.

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His father's idea was that he should read for the bar, and he kept a few terms at Lincoln's Inn; but in the end Oxford, which had, about the year of his birth, experienced a rebirth of ideas, thanks to the widening impulse of the French Revolution, held him, and Oriel College—the centre of the "Noetics," as old Oxford called the Liberal set in contempt—made him a fellow.

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The opinions of the Noetics in Oriel College, Oxford, now seem distinctly mild.

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It is the same scientific spirit of the time, which in the fifties led many who were weary of the idealistic speculations over to materialism, that now secures such wide dissemination and so widespread favor for the endeavors of the neo-Kantians and the positivists or neo-Baconians, who desire to see metaphysics stricken from the list of the sciences and replaced by noëtics, and the theory of the world relegated to faith.

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