cognize
Americanverb (used with object)
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Origin of cognize
First recorded in 1650–60; back formation from cognizance
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As if conception could possibly occur except for a teleological purpose, except to show us the way from a state of things our senses cognize to another state of things our will desires!
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William
Man is more than physical personality, or what we cognize through the material senses.
From No and Yes by Eddy, Mary Baker
The five physical senses do not cognize it.
From Unity of Good by Eddy, Mary Baker
It is not merely through my thinking that I cognize an object, but only through my determining a given intuition in relation to the unity of consciousness in which all thinking consists.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
Now, an idea is clear when we cognize its object not as an individual thing, but in its connection, as a link in the causal chain, as necessary, and as a mode of God.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard
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