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Definition of Cognition
1. Noun. The psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning.
Generic synonyms: Psychological Feature
Specialized synonyms: Brain, Head, Mind, Nous, Psyche, Place, General Knowledge, Public Knowledge, Episteme, Ability, Power, Inability, Lexis, Lexicon, Mental Lexicon, Vocabulary, Practice, Cognitive Factor, Equivalent, Cognitive Operation, Cognitive Process, Mental Process, Operation, Process, Process, Unconscious Process, Perception, Structure, Cognitive Content, Content, Mental Object, Information, History, Attitude, Mental Attitude
Derivative terms: Noetic
Definition of Cognition
1. n. The act of knowing; knowledge; perception.
Definition of Cognition
1. Noun. The process of knowing. ¹
2. Noun. A result of a cognitive process. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cognition
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Cognition
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Cognition
Literary usage of Cognition
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1899)
"In Cognition, its Application to Objects of Experience is the only legitimate
use of the Category To think an object and to cognize an object are by no ..."
2. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1883)
"The true cognition, and such only is the free cognition, is not, if you wish for
a precise expression, an acquired thing, but derived from ourselves. ..."
3. An Outline of Psychology by Edward Bradford Titchener (1897)
"J In the first place, the subject is required to react only when he has cognised
some one of two or more possible stimuli ; the cognition reaction is a ..."
4. Plato, and the Other Companions of Sokrates by George Grote (1888)
"But even if cognition of cognition be possible, I shall not admit it as an
explanation of what temperance is, until I have satisfied myself that it is ..."
5. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1912)
"All the varied results and evolutions of modern epistemology possess the common
feature of interpreting cognition as complete and immanent. ..."
6. Kant's Critical Philosophy for English Readers by Immanuel Kant (1889)
"We can only do this by analysing the effects which they produce, and these effects
are knowledge or cognition.1 The question, therefore, of the Kritik is ..."
7. Logic by Immanuel Kant (1819)
"Cognition in general. Intuitive and discursive Cognition ; Intuition and ...
Logical and Esthetical Perfection of Cognition. r ALL our cognition has a two- ..."
8. Psychology; Or, The Science of Mind by Oliver S. Munsell (1880)
"The general nature and conditions of cognition or perception have already, ...
Cognition may be defined to be " perception or knowledge based upon the ..."
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