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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Take away matter, and mortal mind could not cognize its own so-called substance, and this so-called mind would have no identity.
From Unity of Good by Eddy, Mary Baker
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.
Consequently he never had occasion to inquire whether anything whatsoever was possible which his senses or the senses of other witnesses seemed to cognize.
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen
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
An evil material mind, so-called, can conceive of God only as like itself, and knowing both evil and good; but a purely good and spiritual consciousness has no sense whereby to cognize evil.
From Unity of Good by Eddy, Mary Baker
It is important to notice that Hume, in regard to this problem, distinctly separates Mathematics. geometry from algebra and arithmetic, i.e. he views extensive quantity as being cognized differently from number.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various
The fundamental problem is whether a thing which is by hypothesis infinite can in any sense be defined, and if it is not defined, whether it can be said to be cognized or thought.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
This feeling is cognized by the intellectual faculty, and of this the person is conscious.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jones, Jesse H.
The only study of science that can benefit any one is the study of causation, and causation cannot be cognized by the physical senses.
From The Head Voice and Other Problems Practical Talks on Singing by Clippinger, D. A. (David Alva)
Whenever a material object is cognized, there is a direct effect of matter upon the mind.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various
Not that the nature of the Understanding by any two senses or faculties is ever the same; but that each has its own method of cognizing the same general field of investigation.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
The novice does not know his natural power, his birthright, and must be helped to find it, chiefly, however, by helping himself, by cognizing and re-cognizing it.
From Resonance in Singing and Speaking by Fillebrown, Thomas
But how is the unextended soul capable of cognizing extended body?
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
Hence, pure reason is the faculty which contains the principles of cognizing anything absolutely a priori.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
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