Cognition

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Cognition is formally dedfined as the ability to recognize and take socialperspective. This indicates the facility of an entity to recognize the first person (i.e., I, me, mine), the second person or second person plural (i.e., you, yours, you all), and the object of relationship that defines the first and second persons (i.e., it, s/he, they).

Ken Wilbur, in his dicussion of the four quadrants that consitute the social component of his teachings on Integral Transformative Practice, includes in this matrix a fourth component; the relationship defined by the first person, second person, and the object.