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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kɒɡˈnɪʃ.ən/
• (General American, lot–cloth split) IPA: /kɔɡˈnɪʃ.ən/
• (General American, cot–caught merger, dialects of Canada) IPA: /kɑɡˈnɪʃ.ən/
• (Canada, dialects of the 米国発音) IPA: /kɒɡˈnɪʃ.ən/
• (General Australian) IPA: /koɡˈnɪʃ.ən/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /kɒɡˈnəʃ.ən/, [kɔ̟ɡˈnəʃ.ən]
• ハイフネーション: cog‧ni‧tion

名詞

cognition (countable and uncountable, plural cognitions)

1. The process of knowing, of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and through the senses.

   Coordinate terms: thought, thinking (loosely synonymous); noesis

   human cognition

   social cognition

   cognition research

   Children develop cognition rapidly in their early years.

   The study focused on animal cognition.

   • 1838, Immanuel Kant, “Introduction. I. Of the Difference between Pure and Empirical Cognition.”, in [Francis Haywood], transl., Critick of Pure Reason […], London: William Pickering, →OCLC, page 3:

     That all our Cognition begins with Experience, there is not any doubt; for how otherwise should the faculty of cognition be awakened into exercise, if this did not occur through objects which affect our senses, and partly of themselves produce representations, and partly bring our Understanding-capacity into action, to compare these, to connect, or to separate them, and in this way to work up the rude matter of sensible impressions into a cognition of objects, which is termed experience?

2. (countable) A result of a cognitive process.
3. (archaic) Knowledge; awareness.

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Further reading

• cognition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “cognition”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “cognition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• incognito