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cognition

thought process
Also known as: cognitive faculty
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cognition, the states and processes involved in knowing, which in their completeness include perception and judgment. Cognition includes all conscious and unconscious processes by which knowledge is accumulated, such as perceiving, recognizing, conceiving, and reasoning. Put differently, cognition is a state or experience of knowing that can be distinguished from an experience of feeling or willing. Questions about the nature of cognition and the relationship between the knowing mind and external reality have been debated...

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