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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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 William James
By some instinct, it is able to cognize a dying apple.
From The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
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
For, to do so, I must cognize this being as existing, and yet not in time, which—since I cannot support my conception by any intuition—is impossible.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
We can only cognize the ever-succeeding phenomena of existence as a line in continuous and eternal evolution.
From A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Charles Bradlaugh
But we cannot say so in regard to these two things in question, for Brahman alone is that which cannot be cognized.
From The Tattva-Muktavali by Purnananda Chakravartin
In deep sleep therefore when no object is cognized the self also is not cognized.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
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 D. A. (David Alva) Clippinger
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
So consciousness is not a limitation, though all limits when cognized are seen in the light of consciousness.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones
Man has no faculty for cognizing substances, causes, forces, reasons, first principles--no power by which he can know God.
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
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 H. R. (Henry Rosher) James
From this we perceive the possibility of cognizing a priori a law of changes—a law, however, which concerns their form merely.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
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
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 Richard Falckenberg
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