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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

cognitivist en · ADJ

Etymology

From cognitive + -ist.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to cognitivism.

cognitivist en · NOUN

Etymology

From cognitive + -ist.

Meanings

  1. One who subscribes to the philosophy of cognitivism.
    • However, the European cognitivists assimilate cognitive science into a semiotic framework, whereas the North American cognitivists work within a pure cognitive framework (one un- tainted by semiotics). 2000, Warren Buckland, The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, page 2:
    • This turn upended the traditional cognitivist understanding of cognition as a rigidly individualistic and purely embrained phenomenon, pointing instead toward new cognitivists that, taken together, have re-imagined cognition as a generalised information-processing phenomenon that is enacted by and distributed throughout complex, interdependent systems of minds, brains, bodies, and environments […] 2024, Blair Attard-Frost, “1: Queering intelligence: A theory of intelligence as performance and a critique of individual and artificial intelligence”, in Michael Klipphahn-Karge, Ann-Kathrin Koster, Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss, editors, Queer Reflections on AI: Uncertain Intelligences, →DOI, →ISBN:

Forms

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cognitivists Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

noncognitivist