cognitivist
cognitivist adjective: of or pertaining to cognitivism.
Adjective
cognitivist (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to cognitivism.
Noun
cognitivist (plural cognitivists)
- 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...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...
Forms of cognitivist
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Origin of cognitivist
From cognitive + -ist.
Words formed from cognitivist
Questions about cognitivist
- What does cognitivist mean?
- Cognitivist means of or pertaining to cognitivism.
- What part of speech is cognitivist?
- Cognitivist can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near cognitivist in the dictionary
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