dianoetic

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dianoetic - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Dianoetic \Di`a*no*et"ic\, a. [Gr. ?; dia` through + ? to
     revolve in the mind.] (Metaph.)
     Pertaining to the discursive faculty, its acts or products.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           I would employ . . . dianoetic to denote the operation
           of the discursive, elaborative, or comparative faculty.
                                                    --Sir W.
                                                    Hamilton.
     [1913 Webster]

dianoetic - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  dianoetic
      adj 1: proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather
             than intuition [syn: dianoetic, discursive]