{
  "id": "think.cognitive",
  "term": "think",
  "sense": "cognitive",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "think",
  "domain": "cognitive",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to bring about new information through the interaction of knowledge and change",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "knowledge.cognitive",
      "change.process",
      "information.knowledge",
      "make.verb",
      "new.recent"
    ],
    "interaction": "knowledge and change interact to bring about new information",
    "novel_properties": [
      "novel insight",
      "structured transformation",
      "emergent understanding"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Large Hadron Collider detected the Higgs boson by colliding protons at 13 TeV, producing new data about mass origins.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2017, AlphaGo Zero mastered Go by self-play, generating novel strategies beyond human knowledge.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1986 Challenger disaster inquiry reinterpreted O-ring test data, revealing new failure patterns in solid rocket boosters.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "process.general",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "believe.cognitive",
    "cognitive.mental"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "think",
    "thinking",
    "thinks",
    "thought",
    "thoughts"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "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": "factual",
      "note": "Definition corrected to accurately reflect the emergent process; missing constitutive concepts added."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-think.cognitive"
}