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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

belief go
any cognitive content held as true

doctrine, philosophy, philosophical system, school of thought, ism go
a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory go
a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy

empiricism, empiricist philosophy, sensationalism go
(philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience

positivism, logical positivism
the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)

noun.cognition

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Comtism go
Auguste Comte's positivistic philosophy that metaphysics and theology should be replaced by a hierarchy of sciences from mathematics at the base to sociology at the top