cognition
noun
the act or process of knowing; perception.
cognitional
-
a word derived from
cognition.
Example Sentences
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Lonergan contributed a typically abstruse essay on "cognitional structure."
From Time Magazine Archive
The object of the cognitional act of which you speak is simply the letters of the word.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by George Thibaut
The pûrvapakshin maintains that on account of the declaration of the person's size the cognitional Self is meant.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by George Thibaut
From these definitions emerges a conception of the properties of man's cognitional powers which agrees exactly with those on which, as we have seen, Hume built up his whole philosophy.
From Man or Matter by Ernst Lehrs
Goethe refers to a passage in the Critique of Judgment, where Kant defines the limits of human cognitional powers as he had observed them in his study of the peculiar nature of the human reason.
From Man or Matter by Ernst Lehrs
