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nous
nous Nous is a historical term for reason or thought understood not just as a private mental event, but as an objective principle that gives order, unity, and purpose to things.
Nous is a historical term for reason or thought understood not just as a private mental event, but as an objective principle that gives order, unity, and purpose to things. In ancient thought it also came to mean the highest kind of direct rational insight, and in some systems the supreme rational principle of the universe.