cognize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of cognize
First recorded in 1650–60; back formation from cognizance
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By quality, that by which I cognize any mode of existence.
From A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles
See'st thou, then, how all things in cognizing use rather their own faculty than the faculty of the things which they cognize?
From The Consolation of Philosophy by James, H. R. (Henry Rosher)
Everywhere that things exist, they may be paralleled by Intelligences that cognize them.
From Joseph Smith the Prophet-Teacher A Discourse by Roberts, B. H.
Still, you could not cognize in concreto the object of your ideas in any experience.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
Being is God, infinite Spirit; therefore it cannot cognize aught material, or outside of infinity.
From Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Eddy, Mary Baker
Prabhâkara holds that the self as cognizor is never cognized apart from the cognized object, nor is the object ever cognized without the cognizor entering into the cognition as a necessary factor.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
The second is the relations of phenomena, cognized by the reason alone.
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)
Thus the conception of body indicates something—for example, metal—which can be cognized by means of that conception.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
Some psychologists prefer to restrict the term to the narrower use which excludes all mental states in which particulars are cognized, even though the universal be present also.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various
"Unlike the spacial, three-dimensional physical world cognized only by the five senses, the astral spheres are visible to the all-inclusive sixth sense-intuition," Sri Yukteswar went on.
From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa
The cognizing subject is related to that which is the object of cognition--to a thing which is outside the mind.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
The representation of the empirical manifold of separately existing individual things, together with the organ thereof, Spinoza terms imaginatio; the faculty of cognizing the true reality, the one, all-embracing substance, he calls intellectus.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard
Its heaven, Nirvana, is indeed the world of infinite bliss; but, incapable of cognizing the infinite, it calls it nothing.
From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by Clarke, James Freeman
Incapable of cognizing both time and eternity, it makes them absolute negations of each other.
From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by Clarke, James Freeman
At the same time, it must be carefully borne in mind that, while we surrender the power of cognizing, we still reserve the power of thinking objects, as things in themselves.*
From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
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