Flashcards: Latin Derivatives

cognition

 

1) the process of knowing; 2) knowledge

 

Epistemologists ask to what extent we humans depend on our five senses for cognition.

 

Related English words: cognitional, cognitive (having to do with cognition)

 

Latin root words: cognosco, cognoscere, cognovi, cognitus - learn, recognize; perf.: know, understand; nosco, noscere, novi, notus - to learn; (in perfect tense) to know 

 

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