English > mental object: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition| Meaning | The sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned. |
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| Synonyms | content, cognitive content |
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| Narrower | acculturation, culture | All the knowledge and values shared by a society |
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| belief | Any cognitive content held as true |
| education | knowledge acquired by learning and instruction |
| experience | The content of direct observation or participation in an event |
| food, food for thought, intellectual nourishment | Anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking |
| goal, end | The state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it |
| heresy, unorthodoxy | A belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion |
| idea, thought | The content of cognition |
| ignorance | The lack of knowledge or education |
| issue | An important question that is in dispute and must be settled |
| kenosis | The concept of emptying one's own will and receive God's will, in Catholicism |
| kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty | The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience |
| knowledge domain, knowledge base, domain | The content of a particular field of knowledge |
| lore, traditional knowledge | knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote |
| metaknowledge | knowledge about knowledge |
| noumenon, thing-in-itself | The intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception |
| object | The focus of cognitions or feelings |
| representation, mental representation, internal representation | A presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image |
| topic, subject, issue, matter | Some situation or event that is thought about |
| tradition | An inherited pattern of thought or action |
| unbelief, disbelief | A rejection of belief |
| universe, universe of discourse | Everything stated / stated or assumed in a given discussion |
| wisdom | accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment |
| Broader | cognition, knowledge, noesis | The psychological result of perception / perception and learning and reasoning |
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| Spanish | contenido mental |
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| Catalan | contingut mental |
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