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  • adjective Of or pertaining to cognitivism

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  • "cognitivist" theories is their particular understanding of these cognitions.

    Emotion de Sousa, Ronald 2007

  • Non-cognitivist theories (Hare's prescriptivism, Ayer's emotivism, more recently Allan Gibbard's expressivism), which variously deny that moral statements can be true or false, render moral judgment so subjective and capricious that, strictly speaking, it might just as well extend to "the wrongness of running round trees right-handed or looking at hedgehogs in the light of the moon".

    Philippa Foot obituary Jane O'Grady 2010

  • Indeed, from a cognitivist perspective, teaching might well be defined as the ‘management of attention for pedagogical purposes’.

    A is for Attention « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • Indeed, from a cognitivist perspective, teaching might well be defined as the ‘management of attention for pedagogical purposes’.

    August « 2010 « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • Thanks, but I don't call myself an agnostic; I am a theological non-cognitivist (sometimes called an "ignostic").

    Aiguy's Computer 2008

  • But many of the most interesting historical writings fall squarely within the “cognitivist” approach, and their examples support an interpretation of historical knowledge that is evidence-based, rigorous, and post-positivist.

    A cognitivist philosophy of history Daniel Little 2009

  • I would guess that cognitivist theories would look very different from design theories and those in turn would differ from a variety of ethnographic/anthropological theories.

    What theory in HCI is about Erik Stolterman 2009

  • But not every more moderate internalist principle will be easily explained by a corresponding non-cognitivist theory.

    Boys in White Suits 2009

  • But many of the most interesting historical writings fall squarely within the “cognitivist” approach, and their examples support an interpretation of historical knowledge that is evidence-based, rigorous, and post-positivist.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Daniel Little 2009

  • UnderstandingSociety: A cognitivist philosophy of history skip to main

    A cognitivist philosophy of history Daniel Little 2009

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