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Nous (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠found by Anaxagoras in the simplest experience: ideas move themselves, and move something quite other than themselves — the body.

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Nous (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the faculty through which you look steadfastly at things that are present though absent — for Being never presents itself to the senses.

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Nous (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠no duty and so no purpose: having started its motion, it would be — the sentence is hard to finish; Heraclitus finished it: '…a game.'