cognitive faculty
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcognitiveandfaculty
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cognitive
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈkɒɡ.nə.tɪv/us/ˈkɑːɡ.nə.t̬ɪv/
connected with thinking or conscious ...
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faculty
noun
uk/ˈfæk.əl.ti/us/ˈfæk.əl.t̬i/
a natural ability to hear, see, think, ...
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(Definition ofcognitiveandfacultyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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To put this in another way, suppose we suspect that acognitivefacultycan be used in multiple ways, it has multiple actual domains.
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It is acognitivefacultyused in the manufacture of a tool, not in its everyday use.
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Nor is the disagreement due to the improper function or the unreliability of a particularcognitivefaculty.
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Wynn has started this, but the tool's use does not seem to be connected to thecognitivefacultybeing examined.
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We may have found one of the actual domains for acognitivefaculty, but we have not identified the reasons for its maintenance within a population.
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One's belief might be reliably formed, or formed by properly functioning cognitive faculties, or be indefeasible, or be formed in a non-misleading environment.
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To see why this is so consider the case where you become convinced that your cognitive faculties are in systematic and serious error.
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These plausibly innate (but maturing), domain-specific cognitive faculties are candidates for naturally-selected adaptations to relevant and recurrent aspects of ancestral environments.
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Were their cognitive faculties functioning properly they would judge that it is better to exist than not.
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No amount of studying bifaces with the tools of cognitive science will determine the selective forces that maintain these cognitive faculties within a population.
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Higher cognitive faculties can also augment helping behaviors through explicit teaching.
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But now comes judgement, which in the order of cognitive faculties forms a middle term between understanding and reason.
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Consequently, there will be impaired development of cognitive faculties that require the integrated action of numerous brain regions.
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One might think that such a person is not rational because their cognitive faculties are not functioning properly.
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Without the benefit of the organizing idea involving a highercognitivefaculty, science will tend to deal with secondary aspects of nature instead of the primary, essential properties.
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Suppose we agreed that a person whose relevant cognitive faculties were functioning properly would hold a firm basic theistic belief.
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A belief is warranted just if it is produced by cognitive faculties functioning properly in a congenial environment according to a design plan successfully aimed at truth.
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Advocates of the hermeneuticconstructionist tradition, however, often miss the significance of the fact that the body is a fundamental source of personhood, particularly when higher cognitive faculties are severely impaired.
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