Definitions for "Noesis"
reflective self-understanding. Noetic interpretation: "The tension in political reality that presses beyond the self-understanding of society and pushes the social reality into the position of an object." (syn: political science)
(no-AY-sis or no-EE-sis): How a thing is experienced or present to conscious. The noetic (referring to noesis) and the noematic (referring to noema) are two sides of the same experience; neither can exist without the other. Their relation can be represented by this diagram (after Ihde): I : noesis - noema experiencer : experiencing - experienced
In phenomenology, noesis 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.
the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning