Definition of cognition

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Cognition (v. t.) The act of knowing; knowledge; perception.

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Acknowledgment :: Acknowledgment (n.) The act of owning or recognized in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth, or genuineness..
Echo :: Echo (n.) Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
Absolutist :: Absolutist (n.) One who believes that it is possible to realize a cognition or concept of the absolute.
Distinguishable :: Distinguishable (a.) Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub..
Degree :: Degree (n.) Grade or rank to which scholars are admitted by a college or university, in recognition of their attainments; as, the degree of bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc..
Whereas :: Whereas (conj.) When in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in truth that; although; -- implying opposition to something that precedes; or implying recognition of facts, sometimes followed by a different statement, and sometimes by inferences or something consequent..
Sense :: Sense (v. t.) Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation.
Cognition :: Cognition (v. t.) That which is known.
Appreciation :: Appreciation (n.) A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence..
Acknowledgment :: Acknowledgment (n.) The owning of a benefit received; courteous recognition; expression of thanks.
Realism :: Realism (n.) As opposed to idealism, the doctrine that in sense perception there is an immediate cognition of the external object, and our knowledge of it is not mediate and representative..
Appreciativeness :: Appreciativeness (n.) The quality of being appreciative; quick recognition of excellence.
Re- :: Re- () A prefix signifying back, against, again, anew; as, recline, to lean back; recall, to call back; recede; remove; reclaim, to call out against; repugn, to fight against; recognition, a knowing again; rejoin, to join again; reiterate; reassure. Combinations containing the prefix re- are readily formed, and are for the most part of obvious signification..
Memory :: Memory (n.) The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands..
Subsumption :: Subsume (v. t.) To take up into or under, as individual under species, species under genus, or particular under universal; to place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include under something else..
Self :: Self (n.) The individual as the object of his own reflective consciousness; the man viewed by his own cognition as the subject of all his mental phenomena, the agent in his own activities, the subject of his own feelings, and the possessor of capacities and character; a person as a distinct individual; a being regarded as having personality..
Perception :: Perception (n.) The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition..
Precognition :: Precognition (n.) A preliminary examination of a criminal case with reference to a prosecution.
Toxicology :: Toxicology (n.) The science which treats of poisons, their effects, antidotes, and recognition; also, a discourse or treatise on the science..
Recognition :: Recognition (n.) The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice..
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