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Cognition vs Sapience - What's the difference?

cognition | sapience |

As nouns the difference between cognition and sapience

is that cognition is the process of knowing while sapience is the property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom.

cognition

English

Noun

(wikipedia cognition)
  • The process of knowing.
  • (countable) A result of a cognitive process.

    • Related terms

    * cognitive * cognometrics * cognizant * recognize

    Derived terms

    * precognition

    External links

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    Anagrams

    * incognito

    sapience

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom.
  • * 2009 , Robert Brandom, Reason in Philosophy: Animating Ideas
    • I then marked out three ways in which we can instead describe and demarcate ourselves in terms of the sapience that distinguishes us from the beasts of forest and field.
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