Term used somewhat confusingly in the work of Husserl . The noetic elements of an intentional act (such as seeing or intending) are those that are responsible for giving it its sense; for transforming inert sensory or hyletic data into something with meaning. Noemata are the elements doing this conversion. Husserl's own explanations include ‘the house-as-intended’ or ‘the tree-as-perceived’, or even ‘the noematic “object in the how”’. Although commentators have suggested various interpretations, there is no agreed reason to think that anything answers to these terms.
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