(n.) The deeper wisdom; knowledge of spiritual truth, such as was claimed by the Gnostics.
Example Sentences:
(1) Revascularization of fingers injured by a ring avulsion, and restoration of tactile gnosis with esthetic coverage make salvage of the valued ulnar fingers feasible.
(2) A fractured shoulder last autumn left Khan unable to complete his previous work, Gnosis , in time for its billed premiere.
(3) To gain access to users' passwords, Gnosis used what is known as a brute force attack.
(4) Conclusion is made about the presence of non-specific changes of visual gnosis in patients with schizophrenia and about involvement of the associative frontal structures in pathologic process.
(5) By the aid of photooptical methods the authors studied eye movements in 6 patients with disorders of visual gnosis due to focal lesions in the occipitallbrain lobes.
(6) It also shows tactile gnosis, necessary for precision sensory grips.
(7) This past Saturday, a group calling itself Gnosis broke into Gawker 's website, obtaining and releasing among other things a database of 1.3 million of the site's users and their email addresses.
(8) Starting with this baseline sensorial organization, there develops in the young child a increasingly complex growth gradient of lingual gnosis and praxis (general oral), starting with the spoon-feeding praxis at about 6 months of age.
(9) A neuropsychological investigation of the main cognitive functions (language, gnosis, praxis, calculation, memory) enables us to specify the characteristics of dementia shown by these patients.
(10) Various modalities of six neuropsychological functions (graphia, calculia, finger gnosis, right-left orientation, praxia and constructive praxia) referred to as parietal or nonverbal have been investigated in the light of speech disorders.
(11) It was found that ring-shaped coils have longer axial effective fields than other coil geometries, probably allowing dia gnosis of more deeply lying processes.
(12) Proceeding from the neuropsychological examination of a patient with an exceptionally selective impairment of auditory gnosis of vascular origin, we make an attempt to analyze structurally the syndrome of auditory agnosia, a study of which has been neglected in comparison with analyses of visual agnosia.
(13) Though the Gnosis correspondent denied any formal link with 4Chan, it is clear that Gawker's sustained and critical coverage of the image board was an important motive for the cyber attack.
(14) -- Tests for tactile gnosis were performed by means of "blindfold" tests.
(15) In contrast to Gnosis's "just for the lulz" attack on Gawker, the Anonymous attacks raise an interesting question for defenders of free speech: do we support the attacks as a form of speech act, or do we support the targets' original right to spread their messages unhindered?
(16) and a relative preservation of specific functions (speech, praxis, gnosis).
(17) This review one to eleven years later was mainly to determine if reorientation of the cortical representation of stimuli had developed and if tactile gnosis had persisted.
(18) Gnosis are unrelated to the thousand-strong group, known as Anonymous, which last week crippled the websites of a number of companies that cut ties with WikiLeaks following the release of confidential US diplomatic documents.
(19) A group calling itself Gnosis claimed responsibility for the attack, apparently in response to a series of disparaging Gawker blogposts about the internet messageboard 4Chan.
(20) The pair devised the name Hipgnosis, the partnership that they had started in 1967, by combining "hip" with the Greek word "gnosis", meaning "learning".
Gnostic
Definition:
(a.) Knowing; wise; shrewd.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Gnosticism or its adherents; as, the Gnostic heresy.
(n.) One of the so-called philosophers in the first ages of Christianity, who claimed a true philosophical interpretation of the Christian religion. Their system combined Oriental theology and Greek philosophy with the doctrines of Christianity. They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are derived from the Deity by successive emanations, which they called Eons.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the same time there is a low activity in post-central and temporal "afferent" (sensory-gnostic) cortical areas.
(2) These documents were then compared with the 'Seven sermons', and numerous affinities noted between it and the Gnostic texts.
(3) The MRT expresses the degree of gnostic disturbances by means of a point system.
(4) "As a secularist with Gnostic proclivities," he writes, "and above all as a literary aesthete, I preach Bardolatry as the most benign of all religions."
(5) The authors describe gnostic rings, an additional technique, that is useful for clinical sensibility testing, as well as for sensory reeducation.
(6) Decisive syndromal points of view are: a) there is an absence of significant audiological deficiencies; b) errors of the acoustic-discriminative type prevail in auditory-visual matching tasks; c) the gnostic deficit is modality specific; d) the same items are variably reproduced on repeated presentation; e) there is marked fluctuation of performance; f) there is exceptional irreversibility of the impairment; g) amusia is a more or less obligatory accompanying phenomenon; h) in cases of vascular origin there is always a history of repeated temporal lobe damage, this damage being predominantly in the form of bilateral lesions.
(7) Inflow of potassium ions into the alga Hydrodictyon reticulatum is reduced in the dark, the reduction being accompanied by a change in the selectivity pattern with respect to alkali metal ions, observed in competition experiments and evaluated by the gnostic analysis as described by Kovanic.
(8) It is not enough to assume that because Jung chose the pseudonym of Basilides, he was necessarily Jung's primary Gnostic influence.
(9) Thus it becomes evident that there is epistemologically a fundamental difference between the so-called gnostic and the agnostic standpoint, between the psychoanalytical and the phenomenological approach.
(10) Findings of this study suggest that the connection between the gnostic units of expression and the gnostic units of verbal labeling is not impaired significantly among the dementia patients.
(11) Clinical features deviating from the usual pattern included: no psychosis, no measurable dementia, no dwarfism, no microcephaly, no (marked) involuntary movements, but conspicuous generalised muscle atrophy and denervation, impairment of vital and gnostic sensation, thoracolumbar vertebral anomalies, and aplasia of os coccygis.
(12) The cells of the highest stage eventually become "gnostic cells", whose response shows the final result of the pattern-recognition of the network.
(13) The results have been compared with 101 patients without consideration of all gnostic defects.
(14) However, the most important are signs which definitely correspond to the specificity of the lateralization of the gnostical functions.
(15) The main outcome of the experiments described in the paper is an idea on the gnostic cortical microset.
(16) Bloom, the "Jewish Gnostic heretic" and dedicated follower of Emerson, observes that "sublime literature demands an emotional not an economic investment", and, for himself, declares he is ready to submit, with reservations, to being described as "a theorist of the American Sublime".
(17) While there is no way of knowing precisely what Jung was thinking when he wrote the 'Seven sermons', it is clear that he was well acquainted not only with the work of Basilides, but also with the work of other Gnostic thinkers.
(18) Religious metaphors are rife in these conversations about bread, cheese and coffee – these everyday items have been elevated to gnostic mysteries.
(19) As Luria has noted, the gnostic disturbances associated with damages of the right hemisphere are "the remarkable absence of perception of the patient of his own defects; .
(20) It is shown that preservation of connections of cortical gnostic zones with verbal structures of the left hemisphere is the obligatory condition for consciousness functioning.