COGNITIVE MODELING OF EPISTEMIC MENTAL STATES

• Main Authors: Yurovitskaya, L.N., Mitrofanova, E.A.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Marina Sokolova Publishings 2017-03-01
• Series: Russian Linguistic Bulletin
• Subjects: epistemic mental state; state of things; cognitive position; formal modeling; cognitive modeling; semantic contents; conceptual field; эпистемические состояния; положение дел; когнитивная позиция; формальное моделирование; когнитивное моделирование; семантическое содержание; концептуальное поле
• Online Access: http://rulb.org/wp-content/uploads/wpem/pdf_compilations/1(9)/1(9).pdf#page=31
• ISSN: 2313-0288; 2411-2968

Epistemic states of mind, connected with the cognitive activity of a man, are aimed not only at apprehending the world around us, but also at the process of this apprehension. A very important step on this way is an attempt to model these states and processes in terms of formal logics and semantics, irrespective of the language of cognition. The article presents the idea of how formal logical and linguistic modeling of the process of thinking shows the correlation and the interdependence of semantic units connected with mental activities of human brain. The basic notions of the conceptual field of cognition are presented in the article