cogitable
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Origin of cogitable
1425–75; late Middle English < Latin cōgitābilis, equivalent to cōgitā ( re ) ( see cogitate) + -bilis -ble
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Objects, therefore, are of two kinds, sensible and cogitable.
From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava
A body impelled in one direction by a given force, and in another by its opposite, is easily cogitable.
From Modern Society by Howe, Julia Ward
Hence the Quantitative Infinites must be also Units, and the division of space and time, implying absolute contradiction, is not even cogitable as an hypothesis.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)
If the two contradictory extremes are equally incogitable, yet include a cogitable mean, why insist upon the 252 necessity of accepting either extreme?
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)
For the world is a sum of phenomena; there must, therefore, be some transcendental basis of these phenomena, that is, a basis cogitable by the pure understanding alone.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
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