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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

cognition, knowledge, noesis go
the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

content, cognitive content, mental object go
the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned

thought, idea go
the content of cognition

conception, concept, construct go
an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

possibility, hypothesis, theory go
a tentative insight into the natural world

model, framework, theoretical account
a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process

noun.cognition

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simulation, computer simulation go
(computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program
mean sun go
a theoretical sun that moves along the celestial equator at a constant speed and completes its annual course in the same amount of time the real sun takes at variable speeds
Copernican system go
(astronomy) Copernicus' astronomical model in which the Earth rotates around the sun
Ptolemaic system go
(astronomy) Ptolemy's model of the universe with the Earth at the center
M-theory go
(particle physics) a theory that involves an eleven-dimensional universe in which the weak and strong forces and gravity are unified and to which all the string theories belong
string theory go
(particle physics) a theory that postulates that subatomic particles are one-dimensional strings
stochastic process go
a statistical process involving a number of random variables depending on a variable parameter (which is usually time)