Recognitionthat

Recognitionthat is a neologism used in some discussions within cognitive science and artificial intelligence to denote the cognitive process of recognizing that a proposition or claim is true, or that the available evidence supports it. Unlike recognizing an object or a person, recognitionthat targets propositional content and its justification.

In practice, recognitionthat refers to evaluating the veracity of statements and the strength of supporting evidence. It is considered a metacognitive function because it requires assessment of inferential relations, premises, and potential counterevidence.

Applications appear in discussions of belief revision, scientific reasoning, and verification tasks in natural language processing, where systems assign a confidence level to a proposition and mark it as recognized if evidence reaches a threshold. The term is not widely standardized and appears predominantly in theoretical or informal contexts.

Etymology: the phrase "recognition that" is common in English; recognitionthat as a coinage is sometimes used to describe the process itself or as a compact label in discussions and software identifiers. In most literature, the more common form is two words: recognition that.

See also: truth maintenance, evidential reasoning, belief revision. References to recognitionthat as a formal concept are limited, and the term is largely encountered in speculative or discourse-level discussions rather than as a widely adopted technical standard.