Associations to the word «Cognitivism»

Wiktionary

COGNITIVISM, noun. (philosophy) The view that ethical sentences express propositions and are therefore capable of being true or false.
COGNITIVISM, noun. (arts) The view that a work of art is valuable if it contributes to knowledge.
COGNITIVISM, noun. (psychology) The view that mental function can be understood as the internal manipulation of symbols according to a set of rules.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats