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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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 Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
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)
By attribute, I understand 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
We cannot conceive of any higher creation, because we cannot add an attribute to those we already possess, any more than we can conceive of an additional sense by which to cognize such new attribute.
From The Philosophy of Evolution Together With a Preliminary Essay on The Metaphysical Basis of Science by Carpenter, Stephen H. (Stephen Haskins)
But, assuming that "conceive" is a general term for cognize, the conclusion developed just above is inevitable.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jones, Jesse H.
Things are in God in archetypal form, and are cognized through these their archetypes in God.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard
When the sounds of taps or blows impinge upon the ear slowly, at the rate of not more than sixteen in a second, they are cognized as separate and non-musical noises.
From Through Nature to God by Fiske, John
Or why does it not throw off its shackles and look directly at the object to be cognized, instead of submitting to dependence upon so frail a thing as fleshly eyes and nerves?
From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis
The question now arises, how is self cognized?
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
"Even space and time, though cognized solely by negative characteristics, are determined in so far as differentiated from the existences they contain; but this differentiation involves no limitation of their infinity."
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)
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
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)
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
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
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