Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to, or of the nature of, recognition.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
recognition
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Examples
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In other words, it is this negative quality that turns the recognitional focus onto itself, and with it, onto the experience it attaches to.
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If Gibbard's reasons for thinking that plans must be formulated in recognitional terms are cogent, this result would allow the theory to explain the relevant phenomenon of supervenience.
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As McDowell says, the capacity for employing demonstrative concepts in perception is a recognitional capacity (McDowell 1994a p. 57, Brewer 1999 also holds that a conceptual capacity must be available in the absence of the sample to which it was initially applied).
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He argues that film's realism is the result of the fact that objects depicted on screen trigger the same recognitional capacities that are used to identify real objects.
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But since the recognitional demonstrative concepts the conceptualist appeals to do depend on such memory capacities (according to the re-identification condition), it cannot be the case that our having such demonstrative concepts is necessary for our enjoying fine grained perceptual discriminations.
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It is only at great cost, however, that any moral theory could claim to do without a recognitional layer of moral thinking.
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Recognizing whether one is in one of those situations thus becomes the principal recognitional task for the utilitarian agent.
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And we can also explain how it can be possible for us to acquire some purely recognitional concepts of experience (thus explaining the standard philosophical thought-experiments concerning zombies and such-like).
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At this juncture, it is far less plausible or satisfying simply to say that, employing one's ordinary sensory and recognitional capacities, one sees what is to be done, both things considered.
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Rather, it is simply to say that recognitional attention must have a selective focus.
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