Definition of Cognition

1. Noun. The psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning.


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

1. The mental process of knowing, thinking, learning and judging. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cognition

cognately
cognateness
cognates
cognation
cognations
cognescenti
cognetics
cognisable
cognisance
cognisances
cognisant
cognise
cognised
cognises
cognising
cognition (current term)
cognition disorder
cognitional
cognitions
cognitive
cognitive content
cognitive disability
cognitive dissonance
cognitive dissonance theory
cognitive factor
cognitive laterality quotient
cognitive neuroscience
cognitive neuroscientist
cognitive operation
cognitive process

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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