{
  "id": "cognitive.mental",
  "term": "cognitive",
  "sense": "mental",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 20,
  "arena": "cognitive",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the ability to form knowledge by thinking about things",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "knowledge.cognitive",
      "think.cognitive",
      "ability.capacity",
      "form.shape"
    ],
    "interaction": "thinking interacts with things through the capacity to form new knowledge structures",
    "novel_properties": [
      "mental representation",
      "cognitive structure",
      "emergent understanding"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2012, IBM's Watson processed natural language clues to win at Jeopardy! against human champions.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "A honeybee navigates using remembered landmarks and the sun's position to return to its hive.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Library of Alexandria collected and preserved scrolls to form a centralized repository of known texts.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "knowledge.cognitive",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "learn.cognitive",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "training.skill"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "cognitive"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts 'ability.capacity' and ' mentioning of 'form.shape' in the thinking process as underlying the shaping of knowledge."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-cognitive.mental"
}