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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Now, an idea is clear when we cognize its object not as an individual thing, but in its connection, as a link in the causal chain, as necessary, and as a mode of God.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
The five physical senses do not cognize it.
From Unity of Good by Mary Baker Eddy
The things we do not see or cognize with the physical senses are called mental, or spiritual.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
The external and the internal ear, like the ear-trumpet, are purely material, and by means of them we are able to cognize those material emanations called sound.
From Beyond by Henry Seward Hubbard
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
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
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
"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 B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
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 Surendranath Dasgupta
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
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
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 John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
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
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
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 Thomas Fillebrown
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