{
  "id": "know.cognitive",
  "term": "know",
  "sense": "cognitive",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "linguistics",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "be having information",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "information.knowledge",
      "state.condition"
    ],
    "interaction": "information is kept in a condition, allowing a subject to be aware of it",
    "novel_properties": [
      "subjective awareness",
      "retrievable content",
      "intentional access"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Voyager 1 spacecraft retains navigational data from Earth, enabling autonomous course corrections after 45 years in interstellar space.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2020, the World Health Organization compiled and disseminated genomic sequences of SARS-CoV-2 to over 190 countries within weeks of its identification.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A raven remembers the location of 3,000 hidden food caches for up to nine months, retrieving them through spatial memory.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "information.knowledge",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "legacy-code.unmeasured",
    "measure.quantitative",
    "notice.perceptual",
    "tell.communication",
    "understanding.cognitive"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "knew",
    "know",
    "knowing",
    "known",
    "knows"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-know.cognitive"
}