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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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
The things we do not see or cognize with the physical senses are called mental, or spiritual.
From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis
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
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
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 Falckenberg, Richard
The cognition of smoke includes within itself the cognition of fire also, and thus there would be nothing left unknown to be cognized by the inferential cognition.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
The question now arises, how is self cognized?
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
Negation is therefore to be admitted as cognized by a separate and independent process of knowledge.
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 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)
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 Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)
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
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 Dasgupta, Surendranath
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
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
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