cognition

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If a cognition could be the object of another cognition, then it could not be self-valid.

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  1. noun The mental process of knowing, including aspects such as awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment.
  2. noun That which comes to be known, as through perception, reasoning, or intuition; knowledge.

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  1. Middle English cognicioun, from Latin cognitiō, cognitiōn-, from cognitus, past participle of cognōscere, to learn : co-, intensive pref.; see co- + gnōscere, to know; see gnō- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English cognicion = French cognition = Provencal cognicio = Spanish cognicion (obsolete) = Italian cognizione, from Latin cognitio(n-), knowledge, perception, a judicial examination, trial, from cognitus, past participle of cognoscere, know, from co-, together, + gnoscere, older form of noscere, = Greek γι-γνώσκειν, γνῶναι = English know: see know, and cf. cognize, cognizance, cognizor, cognosee, connoisseur.
 

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