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Definition of Cognitional
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cognitional
Literary usage of Cognitional
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and Other Essays in Contemporary Thought by John Dewey (1910)
"The test of the cognitional rectitude of the odor lies in the specific object
which it sets out to secure. This is the meaning of the statement that the ..."
2. English and American Philosophy Since 1800: A Critical Survey by Arthur Kenyon Rogers (1922)
"The fact plainly is, that if we presuppose a state of affairs within which thinking
or knowledge enters as a subordinate stage, this non-cognitional ..."
3. A Study of Ethical Principles by James Seth (1905)
"And if, in the cognitional life, the subject seems to be lost in the object, in
feeling and in activity the subject becomes the prime reality. ..."
4. Psychology by Michael Maher (1890)
"to emotional, and then in regard to cognitional rank, we shall find that the two
schemes will assume virtually an inverse order. Viewed as direct sources of ..."
5. Critical Realism: A Study of the Nature and Conditions of Knowledge by Roy Wood Sellars (1916)
"I shall assume in the rest of the argument that men do possess the empirical
distinction between a cognitional idea and the thing which it means. ..."
6. What is Pragmatism ? by James Bissett Pratt (1909)
"But I should like to point out that this meaning or intending of something beyond
itself by the cognitional experience does not consist in and is not ..."
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