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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

knowledge domain, knowledge base, domain go
the content of a particular field of knowledge

study, discipline, field, subject, subject area, subject field, field of study, bailiwick go
a branch of knowledge

science, scientific discipline go
a particular branch of scientific knowledge

linguistics go
the scientific study of language

descriptive linguistics go
a description (at a given point in time) of a language with respect to its phonology and morphology and syntax and semantics without value judgments

grammar go
the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics)

syntax go
studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences

generative grammar
(linguistics) a type of grammar that describes syntax in terms of a set of logical rules that can generate all and only the infinite number of grammatical sentences in a language and assigns them all the correct structural description

noun.cognition

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