kenneticadj.

1950 A. F. Bentley in Science 29 Dec. 775/1 Kennetic inquiry is a name proposed for organized investigation into the problem of human knowings and knowns, where this is so conducted that the full range of subject matters—all the knowings and all the knowns—form a common field.

1950 A. F. Bentley in Science 29 Dec. 775/2 To form the name ‘kennetic’, the Scottish ‘ken’ or ‘kenning’ has been preferred to any word in the groups centering around ‘cognition’.

1955 M. Reifer Dict. New Words 116/1 Kennetic adj., pertaining to the study of the acquisition of knowledge viewed as a transaction between the learner and the entire matter to be learned.

1960 H. C. Shands Thinking & Psychotherapy ii. 40 It is important for an understanding of the processes of kennetic inquiry to remember always the shifting nature of means and ends.

1970 H. C. Shands Semiotic Approaches to Psychiatry 8 Natural philosophy must be primarily oriented toward the understanding of communicative process, and..toward ‘kennetic inquiry’.