Noology or Noölogy derives from the Greek words νοῦς "mind" and λόγος "logos

Logos

' is an important term in philosophy, psychology, rhetoric and religion. Originally a word meaning "a ground", "a plea", "an opinion", "an expectation", "word," "speech," "account," "reason," it became a technical term in philosophy, beginning with Heraclitus ' is an important term in...

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Noology thus outlines a systematic study and organization of everything dealing with knowing and knowledge.
It is also used to describe the science of intellectual phenomena. It is the study of images of thought, their emergence, their genealogy, and their creation.

In the Critique of Pure Reason

Critique of Pure Reason

The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, first published in 1781, second edition 1787, is considered one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. Also referred to as Kant's "first critique," it was followed by the Critique of Practical Reason and the Critique of Judgement...

, Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher from Königsberg , researching, lecturing and writing on philosophy and anthropology at the end of the 18th Century Enlightenment....

 uses "noology" synonymously with rationalism

Rationalism

In epistemology and in its modern sense, rationalism is "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification" . In more technical terms, it is a method or a theory "in which the criterion of the truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive"...

, distinguishing it from empiricism

Empiricism

Empiricism is a theory of knowledge that asserts that knowledge comes only or primarily via sensory experience. One of several views of epistemology, the study of human knowledge, along with rationalism, idealism and historicism, empiricism emphasizes the role of experience and evidence,...

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Spanish philosopher Xavier Zubiri

Xavier Zubiri

Xavier Zubiri was a Spanish philosopher noted for his intellectual rigor. A major accomplishment of Zubiri's philosophy is its systematic development of a new conception of reality such that within it man, as a "sentient intelligence," appears in a different light...

 developed his own notion of noology.

See also

• Epistemology
• Philosophy of the Mind
• Consciousness studies
• Noetics (Amoroso)
  Noetic theory
  In traditional philosophy, noëtics is a branch of metaphysical philosophy concerned with the study of mind and intellect...
  
  
• Noetics (Zarkadakis)
  George Zarkadakis
  George Zarkadakis is novelist, poet, playwright, and popular science writer, born in Athens in 1964.-Academic and popular science work:In 1982, he migrated to London, England, where he studied systems engineering at City University. At the age of 24 he received his PhD in Artificial Intelligence...
  
  

External links

• http://www.noologie.de/
• http://www.noologie.de/nooa01.htm
• http://www.noologie.de/diamant.htm
• http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/crossref-forward-links/268/5217/1632