Editing Cognitive science (section)

===''Cognitive'' science, the term===
The term "cognitive" in "cognitive science" is used for "any kind of mental operation or structure that can be studied in precise terms" ([[George Lakoff|Lakoff]] and [[Mark Johnson (professor)|Johnson]], 1999). This conceptualization is very broad, and should not be confused with how "cognitive" is used in some traditions of [[analytic philosophy]], where "cognitive" has to do only with formal rules and [[truth-conditional semantics]].

The earliest entries for the word "''cognitive''" in the [[OED]] take it to mean roughly ''"pertaining to the action or process of knowing"''. The first entry, from 1586, shows the word was at one time used in the context of discussions of [[Plato]]nic theories of [[knowledge]]. Most in cognitive science, however, presumably do not believe their field is the study of anything as certain as the knowledge sought by Plato.<ref>{{Citation |last=Shields |first=Christopher |title=Aristotle's Psychology |date=2020 |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2020/entries/aristotle-psychology/ |encyclopedia=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |edition=Winter 2020 |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |access-date=2022-10-20 |archive-date=20 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221020122221/https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2020/entries/aristotle-psychology/ |url-status=live }}</ref>