cognitivist

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adjective

Of or pertaining to cognitivism.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivecognitivist (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf or pertaining to cognitivism.
nouncognitivist (plural cognitivists)

plural cognitivists

  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
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    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

Origin

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Chicago

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