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In Platonism, dianoia (Greek: διάνοια) is the human cognitive faculty associated with the BC portion of the analogy of the divided line and related to discursive thinking about mathematical and technical subjects.^[1] It stands in contrast to the immediate, cognitive process of intuitive apprehension or noesis.^[2]

In Aristotle, dianoia is subdivided into theoretical knowledge (technē) and practical knowledge (phronēsis).^[3]