Cognition

/kɒɡˈnɪʃ.ən/ · noun

Meaning

The process of knowing, of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and through the senses..

Definitions by Sense

1. The process of knowing, of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and through the senses.
2. (countable) A result of a cognitive process.
3. (archaic) Knowledge; awareness.

Example Sentences

human cognition

social cognition

cognition research

Children develop cognition rapidly in their early years.

The study focused on animal cognition.

That all our Cognition begins with Experience, there is not any doubt; for how otherwise should the faculty of cognition be awakened into exercise, if this did not occur through objects which affect our senses, and partly of themselves produce representations, and partly bring our Understanding-capacity into action, to compare these, to connect, or to separate them, and in this way to work up the rude matter of sensible impressions into a cognition of objects, which is termed experience?

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• cognitions

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