enactive

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   in cognitive science, relating to the view that cognition arises through an embodied organism's active engagement with its environment

   An enactive account of perception treats seeing as a skilled activity rather than the passive reception of an internal picture.

2. 2
   adj

   having the power or effect of enacting, establishing, or bringing something into operation

   The ordinance contains an enactive clause that establishes the new authority.

Formed from enact + -ive. Enact combines en- ("to cause to be in") with act, from Latin actus ("a doing"). The modern cognitive-science sense was developed in enactivism, which understands mind and perception as brought forth through embodied action in an environment.

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