cognize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Origin of cognize
First recorded in 1650–60; back formation from cognizance
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In brief, "Of phenomena we have knowledge; in the true nature of things we believe; presentiment enables us to cognize the latter in the former."
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
Man is more than physical personality, or what we cognize through the material senses.
From No and Yes by Mary Baker Eddy
To think an object and to cognize an object are by no means the same thing.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
Still, you could not cognize in concreto the object of your ideas in any experience.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
Substances are distinct from one another when we can clearly and distinctly cognize one without the other.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
The âtman says Gau@dapâda is at once the cognizer and the cognized, the world subsists in the âtman through mâyâ.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
By mode, I understand each cognized condition or accident of existence.
From A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Charles Bradlaugh
Negation or non-existence can be cognized even without any sense-contact.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
For, in this case, it is quite foreign and unessential to the nature of things, and cannot be cognized from the general laws of nature.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
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 B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
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 Hamilton Wright Mabie
This contact must then be of some kind of atom which resides in the body ensouled by the cognizing soul.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
He had approached things in the full confidence that the human mind was capable of cognizing them, and with a naïve trust in the power of reason to possess itself of the truth.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
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 James Freeman Clarke
Hence, pure reason is the faculty which contains the principles of cognizing anything absolutely a priori.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
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