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cognitive
1、 Having to do with the process of knowing, including awareness, judgment, and understanding.
2、 Based on factual knowledge that has been or can be gained by experience.
🌱A child isn't a computer; a third-grader's cognitive abilities are highly dependent on his or her upbringing and happiness. 🌳Cognitive skills and knowledge involve the ability to acquire factual information, often the kind of knowledge that can easily be tested. So cognition should be distinguished from social, emotional, and creative development and ability. Cognitive science is a growing field of study that deals with human perception, thinking, and learning. agnostic A person who believes that whether God exists is not known and probably cannot be known.
🌱Both of them were always agnostics, but after they had children they started attending church again. 🌳The words agnostic and agnosticism were coined around 1870 by the great English biologist T. H. Huxley, who had just spent a decade defending the works of Charles Darwin against the attacks of the church. Scientists often put a high value on evidence when arguing about religion, and many agnostic thinkers believe that human minds simply aren't equipped to grasp the nature of God. But agnostics differ from atheists, who actually claim that no God exists and may even think they can prove it. You may have seen the similar word gnostic, the name for followers of certain religious sects from around the time of Christ that sought spiritual knowledge and rejected the material world. An increasing interest in gnosticism today can be seen in the popular novels of Philip Pullman, Dan Brown, and Neil Gaiman. incognito In disguise, or with one's identity concealed.
🌱Years after her reign as a top Hollywood star, she was discovered working incognito as a bartender in Manhattan while living in cheap hotels. 🌳In a famous myth, Zeus and Hermes visit a village incognito to test the villagers. The seemingly poor travelers are turned away from every household except that of Baucis and Philemon. This elderly couple, though very poor themselves, provide the disguised gods with a feast. When the gods finally reveal themselves, they reward the couple generously for their hospitality, but destroy the rest of the village. prognosis 1、 The chance of recovery from a given disease or condition.
2、 A forecast or prophecy.
🌱The prognosis for a patient with chicken pox is usually excellent; the prognosis for someone with liver cancer is terrible. 🌳With its prefix pro-, meaning "before," prognosis means basically "knowledge beforehand" of how a situation is likely to turn out. Prognosis was originally a strictly medical term, but it soon broadened to include predictions made by experts of all kinds. Thus, for example, economists are constantly offering prognoses （notice the irregular plural form） about where the economy is going, and climate scientists regularly prognosticate about how quickly the earth's atmosphere is warming.
2、 Based on factual knowledge that has been or can be gained by experience.
🌱A child isn't a computer; a third-grader's cognitive abilities are highly dependent on his or her upbringing and happiness. 🌳Cognitive skills and knowledge involve the ability to acquire factual information, often the kind of knowledge that can easily be tested. So cognition should be distinguished from social, emotional, and creative development and ability. Cognitive science is a growing field of study that deals with human perception, thinking, and learning. agnostic A person who believes that whether God exists is not known and probably cannot be known.
🌱Both of them were always agnostics, but after they had children they started attending church again. 🌳The words agnostic and agnosticism were coined around 1870 by the great English biologist T. H. Huxley, who had just spent a decade defending the works of Charles Darwin against the attacks of the church. Scientists often put a high value on evidence when arguing about religion, and many agnostic thinkers believe that human minds simply aren't equipped to grasp the nature of God. But agnostics differ from atheists, who actually claim that no God exists and may even think they can prove it. You may have seen the similar word gnostic, the name for followers of certain religious sects from around the time of Christ that sought spiritual knowledge and rejected the material world. An increasing interest in gnosticism today can be seen in the popular novels of Philip Pullman, Dan Brown, and Neil Gaiman. incognito In disguise, or with one's identity concealed.
🌱Years after her reign as a top Hollywood star, she was discovered working incognito as a bartender in Manhattan while living in cheap hotels. 🌳In a famous myth, Zeus and Hermes visit a village incognito to test the villagers. The seemingly poor travelers are turned away from every household except that of Baucis and Philemon. This elderly couple, though very poor themselves, provide the disguised gods with a feast. When the gods finally reveal themselves, they reward the couple generously for their hospitality, but destroy the rest of the village. prognosis 1、 The chance of recovery from a given disease or condition.
2、 A forecast or prophecy.
🌱The prognosis for a patient with chicken pox is usually excellent; the prognosis for someone with liver cancer is terrible. 🌳With its prefix pro-, meaning "before," prognosis means basically "knowledge beforehand" of how a situation is likely to turn out. Prognosis was originally a strictly medical term, but it soon broadened to include predictions made by experts of all kinds. Thus, for example, economists are constantly offering prognoses （notice the irregular plural form） about where the economy is going, and climate scientists regularly prognosticate about how quickly the earth's atmosphere is warming.
GNI/GNO comes from a Greek and Latin verb meaning "to know," and can be found at the root of know itself. Among other words built from this root, you may recognize ("know again") some and be ignorant of ("not know") others. But only an ignoramus would know absolutely none of them.🌸