Definition of "cognitivist" [cognitivist]

• Of or pertaining to cognitivism (adjective)

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• ""cognitivist" theories is their particular understanding of these cognitions."
• "Indeed, from a cognitivist perspective, teaching might well be defined as the ‘management of attention for pedagogical purposes’."
• "Non-cognitivist theories (Hare's prescriptivism, Ayer's emotivism, more recently Allan Gibbard's expressivism), which variously deny that moral statements can be true or false, render moral judgment so subjective and capricious that, strictly speaking, it might just as well extend to "the wrongness of running round trees right-handed or looking at hedgehogs in the light of the moon"."