cognitivist
/ˈkɒɡnɪtɪvɪst
/noun
A person who believes or works in cognitive grammar.If the brain is at the root of all language, then the further claim of cognitivists makes sense: that the everyday and the special are cognitively the same....
- Along with the digital age, his theory of computation helped inspire the cognitivist revolution, making him, by some lights the first cognitivist.
adjective
Relating to cognitive grammar.In the symbolic or cognitivist paradigm, which was dominant in the '70s and '80s, the mind is seen as a symbol-based rule-system....
- The cognitivist view has become familiar enough: figures of speech are really conceptual structures, crucial both to cognition and culture.
Derivatives
cognitivism
Origin
1950s (in the sense 'believing that moral judgements are true or false statements about moral facts'): from cognitive + -ist.
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