mental object

1. is a type of: cognition, knowledge, noesis - the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
   subtypes:

   • tradition - an inherited pattern of thought or action
   • object - the focus of cognitions or feelings
   • food, food for thought, intellectual nourishment - anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking
   • noumenon, thing-in-itself - the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception
   • universe, universe of discourse - everything stated or assumed in a given discussion
   • issue, matter, subject, topic - some situation or event that is thought about
   • issue - an important question that is in dispute and must be settled
   • idea, thought - the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
   • center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum - the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
   • wisdom - accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment
   • internal representation, mental representation, representation - a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image
   • belief - any cognitive content held as true
   • kenosis - the concept of emptying one's own will and receive God's will, in Catholicism
   • disbelief, unbelief - a rejection of belief
   • heresy, unorthodoxy - a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion
   • end, goal - the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
   • education - knowledge acquired by learning and instruction
   • experience - the content of direct observation or participation in an event
   • acculturation, culture - all the knowledge and values shared by a society
   • lore, traditional knowledge - knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote
   • ignorance - the lack of knowledge or education
   • domain, knowledge base, knowledge domain - the content of a particular field of knowledge
   • metaknowledge - knowledge about knowledge
   same as: cognitive content, content

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