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This article aims at clarifying the notion of “cognitive nouns” (noms “épistémiques”), as it relates to cognitive mental phenomenons, for instance in sentences such as Max a une idée claire du problème (Max has a clear idea of the problem), or Max a une vision déformée du monde (Max has a twisted idea of the world). The syntactic analysis is essentially based upon the theory of support verbs. A semantic class of nouns describing the various aspects of mental activity, such as judgement and representation, was thus defined.