Definitions

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  • noun philosophy The perceived as perceived
  • noun philosophy That which is perceived in the noesis/noema duality
  • noun rhetoric An obscure and subtle speech.

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek νόημα (noēma, "concept”, “idea”, “perception”, “thought").

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Examples

  • Something similar goes with regard to the singularity of a hallucinatory experience's noema: if such an experience were veridical, it would, in virtue of its noema, represent a particular perceptual object in all relevant possible worlds (see Section 3 above).

    Edmund Husserl Beyer, Christian 2007

  • Phenomenological description is concerned with those aspects of the noema that remain the same irrespective of whether the experience in question is veridical or not.

    Edmund Husserl Beyer, Christian 2007

  • Thanks to its noema, even a hallucination is an intentional act.

    Edmund Husserl Beyer, Christian 2007

  • Husserl's notion of noema (hence his notion of intentionality) is most fundamentally rooted, not in reflections on the logical features of language, but in a contrast between the object of an intentional act, and the object ˜as intended™ (the way in which it is intended), and in the idea that a structure would remain to perceptual experience, even if it were radically non-veridical.

    Consciousness and Intentionality Siewert, Charles 2006

  • The philosophical analysis of this immediacy is phenom - enology, itself based on a double binary structure of noesis/noema and formal/material.

    STRUCTURALISM PETER CAWS 1968

  • Husserl wished to render philosophy into a rigorous science, and therefore labored to develop a systematic method for observing the world (the perceived noema) purely and without the presuppositions that can sediment themselves into our personal experiential histories and cause us to mistakenly assume what we do not apprehend, but found that this endeavor required an underpinning understanding of both the nature of the observer and the nature of observation itself (the subject and the noesis of perception).

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Putting Heidegger in the library’s grave of discarded lies 2009

  • ˜noema,™ which plays a role similar to Frege's notion of ˜sense.™

    Franz Brentano Huemer, Wolfgang 2007

  • ˜noema™ is properly interpreted as having the characteristics of Fregean ˜sense.™

    Consciousness and Intentionality Siewert, Charles 2006

  • Ideas [1913] 1983) the ˜noema™ or ˜noematic structure™ that can be common to distinct particular acts.

    Consciousness and Intentionality Siewert, Charles 2006

  • Now he speaks of the spiritual weapons given by God "unto the pulling down of fortifications", (4) "bringing into captivity every understanding (noema) unto the obedience of

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

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  • Prof. Husserl directs your attention

    To quite a confounding invention.

    He calls it noema,

    A psychic edema

    Inflating an act of intention.

    March 26, 2018