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What is cognitivism?

What is cognitivism? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (philosophy) The view that ethical sentences express propositions and are therefore capable of being true or false.
  2. (art) The view that a work of art is valuable if it contributes to knowledge.
  3. (psychology) The view that mental function can be understood as the internal manipulation of symbols according to a set of rules.
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Thomas admits that cognitivism, like noncognitivism, has difficulty explaining moral error.
I have also contrasted two versions of cognitivism.
Behaviorism is not cognitive and cognitivism is not behavioral.
I have tried to show that it is impossible to opt simultaneously for both the strong versions of individualism and of cognitivism.
Nondescriptivist cognitivism spurns psychological non-cognitivism, but embraces semantic nonfactualism, at least insofar as it rejects the claim that moral sentences describe the world or predicate genuine properties.
Part 1 shows that Habermas's view that there is only an analogy between truth and rightness rests on an unjustified worry that metaethical cognitivism implies moral realism.

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