Cognitive State

CURIE: gmeow:CognitiveState
IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/CognitiveState
Category: class
Defined by: gmeow:slices/cognition
Box roles: TBox role (What is this?)

An agent's intrinsic knowing mode toward a subject — the mental moment grounding the knowledge spectrum and the reified gmeow:KnowledgeProficiency. The agent-side 'knowing' sibling of epistemics' doxastic states and teleology's gmeow:IntentionalMode, all gathered under gmeow:MentalMoment (kernel) so an agent's whole mental life is queryable as one family (Principle 15). Inheres in exactly one agent. NOTE: a CognitiveState (mode) and a gmeow:KnowledgeProficiency (relator) for the same knowing relation are DIFFERENT individuals — never double-typed (Principle 12).

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:MentalMoment

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:CognitiveState as a specialized kind of gmeow:MentalMoment. Add statement metadata or a standpoint when the assertion needs provenance, confidence, or vantage.

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Knowledge Proficiency

Source: slices/core/cognition/examples/knowledge-proficiency.ttl
Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-cognition-examples-knowledge-proficiency

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: the reified knowledge tier. The flat spectrum (gmeow:hasMastered
# &c.) says HOW DEEP; the reified gmeow:KnowledgeProficiency adds the SCALE it is
# read against, a temporal interval, and a standpoint — the promotion path when
# level, scale, time, or vantage matters (Principle 4). Suppression, not deletion:
# lapsed knowledge is a CLOSED interval with gmeow:displayable false, never removed
# (Principle 10). The mode (gmeow:CognitiveState) and the relator
# (gmeow:KnowledgeProficiency) are DIFFERENT individuals — never double-typed.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/cognition/> .
@prefix wd:    <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

# The grounding mode is a SEPARATE individual (a gmeow:CognitiveState), never the
# same node as the relator — founded-on is documentation, not a type (Principle 12).
ex:adaPythonKnowing a gmeow:CognitiveState .

Teaching And Being Taught

Source: slices/core/learning/examples/teaching-and-being-taught.ttl
Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-learning-examples-teaching-and-being-taught

@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/learning/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .



ex:lillithBalances a gmeow:CognitiveState ;
    rdfs:label "Lillith's grasp of balancing"@en .

ex:rowanBalances a gmeow:CognitiveState ;
    rdfs:label "Rowan's grasp of balancing"@en .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:MentalMoment

Usage Advice

Use when

Use to type an agent's intrinsic knowing mode as a first-class mental moment — the endurant state that grounds the knowledge spectrum and is queried alongside doxastic and conative modes under gmeow:MentalMoment (Principle 15).

Avoid when

Avoid double-typing the same knowing relation as both a CognitiveState (mode) and a gmeow:KnowledgeProficiency (relator) — they are different individuals (Principle 12); avoid it for the flat 80% case (use the gmeow:isAwareOf … gmeow:hasMastered spectrum) and for a reasoning EPISODE that unfolds in time (that is a gmeow:MentalProcess, mentation).

How to use

Mint one CognitiveState inhering in the agent; carry the depth as the flat spectrum or promote to a gmeow:KnowledgeProficiency relator when level/scale/interval/standpoint matter, and let the mentation slice's gmeow:producesMentalMoment (new belief) or gmeow:realizesMentalMoment (manifest capacity) bridge a knowing-process to the moment it settles.

Examples

ex:lillithKnowsPython a gmeow:CognitiveState; gmeow:inheresIn ex:lillith.