In the dialectical relationship between practice and cognition, Marxist philosophy first emphasizes that practice is the basis of cognition and the decisive role of practice in cognition.

First, practice is the source of knowledge.

Second, practice is the driving force for cognitive development.

Third, practice is the standard for testing whether knowledge has truth.

Fourth, practice is the purpose of understanding.

Fifth, the active reaction of cognition on practice is fully reflected in the huge guiding role of theory as an advanced form of cognition on practice.

Cognition view

1. Cognition is repetitive

From the perspective of the subject of cognition, people's understanding of objective things is always limited by subjective conditions. From the perspective of cognitive objects, objective things are complex and changing, and there is also a process for the exposure and presentation of their essence. This determines that people's correct understanding of a thing often requires many iterations from practice to understanding, and then from understanding to practice.

2. Cognition is infinite

The object of cognition is the infinitely changing material world. Human beings, as the subject of cognition, continue from generation to generation, and social practice as the basis of cognition is continuous. developed. Therefore, human knowledge develops infinitely, and the pursuit of truth is an endless process (the ultimate truth does not exist).

3. Knowledge is progressive and rising

The repetitive and infinite nature of the movement of knowledge shows that the pursuit of truth is a wave-like advancement or spiral upward process .