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H usserl introduced these two words in his Ideas (1913) to stand for the features that characterize the directedness of acts. Each act has a noema, a collection of features that make the act be as if of an object which is experienced in a certain way, in some specific mode of appearance, a specific orientation, with specific traits and specific modes of indeterminate indication, etc. ( Ideas , p. 190). The noema has two components, one, the “object meaning” that integrates the various components of our experience into experiences of the various features of one object, and one, the “thetic” component, that differentiates acts of different kinds, for example, the act of perceiving an object from the act of remembering it or thinking about it. While the noema can be the same from act to act, the noesis is the concrete mental process that is integrated by a noema. There is hence a close parallelism between noema and noesis, which are the two main items studied in Husserl's PHENOMENOLOGY. : Ideen ( The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff , 1913 ; , Ideas ( The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff , 1982 ). ... log in or subscribe to read full text