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According to Faber, the import of the Greek word Nous and of the Sanscrit Menu is precisely the same: each denotes mind or intelligence, and to the latter of them the Latin Mens is nearly allied.
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SES Toronto 2008: Universal and blended search Simon Lamarche of Innovation Web is covering the SEM conference in French: "Nous sommes actuellement à Toronto pour le SES Toronto 2008."
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Simon Lamarche of Innovation Web is covering the SEM conference in French: "Nous sommes actuellement à Toronto pour le SES Toronto 2008."
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Simon Lamarche of Innovation Web is covering the SEM conference in French: "Nous sommes actuellement à Toronto pour le SES Toronto 2008."
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Simon Lamarche of Innovation Web is covering the SEM conference in French: "Nous sommes actuellement à Toronto pour le SES Toronto 2008."
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But I have now plainly shown that the first production of Nous, that is, of the intelligence they speak of, is an untenable and impossible opinion.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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In imme - diate sequence to God is Providence, which the Greeks called Nous and which is the intelligible essence of
FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE VINCENZO CIOFFARI 1968
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The One, equated with God and the Good, was both transcendent and immanent: “while it is nowhere, nowhere is it not”; the Nous (“Mind” or “Spirit”), being the image of the One; and the Soul, the offspring of the Nous, which is the cosmic creator.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas S. G. F. BRANDO 1968
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The Nous is the king of the whole organism, the governing and unifying power, and hence is often called the man himself.
Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Norman Bentwich 1927
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Platonic Nous, which is merely the directive cause of creation, or the Stoic Logos, as the rational soul of the universe, the foundation of his doctrine.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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