Without the bodily states following on the perception, the latter would be purely cognitive in form, pale, colourless, destitute of emotional warmth.

Research has indicated that correlations between measures of intelligence and personality are small, and it has thus been argued that g is a purely cognitive variable that is independent of personality traits.

Worst of all, the sociology of knowledge challenged the special field of philosophy as a purely cognitive activity in which the application of logical thought could generate knowledge true in all contexts.

It is for this reason that the sociology of knowledge is effective as a critique of epistemology which purports to be a purely cognitive activity.

They provide the tools, algebra, statistics and computer algorithms, to process information too voluminous or complex for purely cognitive, informal inference.

It implies that capacity for personal affective response that is dismissed by those who wish to transform literature into a purely cognitive discourse.

'At first I approached the issue from a purely cognitive perspective Could you scramble someone's mind using purely psychological techniques?'

The motivation generated by a moral shock is, as the conceptual label makes plain, moral in nature; it operates at a level of normative force beyond just the purely cognitive or emotional.

How we feel about an outcome may override purely cognitive rationales.

Because for Collins, all scientific knowledge is socially constructed, there are no purely cognitive reasons or objective criteria that determine whether a claim is valid or not.