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Peer reviewedLoomis, David J. – Religious Education, 1988
Describes imagination as the cognitive faculty that mediates a person's relationship with God. Discusses imagination's integrative function and its realm of pure possibility which facilitates openness to God. States that only through imagination grounded in God's spirit can humankind hope to perceive, with increasing degrees of clarity, God's…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Imagination, Intuition, Religion
Peer reviewedFrascara, Jorge – Visible Language, 1999
Looks at human information processing as a complex system, concentrating on certain insights about field interactions that will reposition the understanding of mental processes, moving it from an analysis of logical steps to the exploration of the influence that contexts have on human cognitive performance. (CR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Emotional Experience, Human Relations
Stone, Matthew – Cognitive Science, 2004
I show how a conversational process that takes simple, intuitively meaningful steps may be understood as a sophisticated computation that derives the richly detailed, complex representations implicit in our knowledge of language. To develop the account, I argue that natural language is structured in a way that lets us formalize grammatical…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Semantics, Intuition, Grammar
Peer reviewedOtte, Michael – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1990
Compared and contrasted are the concepts intuition and logic. The ideas of conceptual thought and algorithmic thought are discussed in terms of the world as a labyrinth, intuition and time, and the structure of knowledge. (KR)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Algorithms, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes

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