Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
NOESIS
cognition, knowledge, noesis
(noun) the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
noesis (countable and uncountable, plural noeses)
(in psychology) cognition, the functioning of intellect.
(in Greek philosophy) the exercise of reason.
(in metaphysical philosophy) the consciousness component of Noetic Theory, which concerns the duality of noesis and noema.
Anagrams
• Enosis, eosins, essoin, neosis, noises, nosies, ossein, sonsie
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