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entity go
that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

abstraction, abstract entity go
a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples

psychological feature go
a feature of the mental life of a living organism

event go
something that happens at a given place and time

act, deed, human action, human activity go
something that people do or cause to happen

activity go
any specific behavior

process, procedure go
a particular course of action intended to achieve a result

rule, formula
(mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems

noun.cognition

4 Subcategories

metarule go
a rule that describes how other rules should be used (as in AI)
algorithm, algorithmic rule, algorithmic program go
a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem
heuristic, heuristic rule, heuristic program go
a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem
recursion go
(mathematics) an expression such that each term is generated by repeating a particular mathematical operation