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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But I cannot for this reason say that I cognize this property of a straight line from principles—I cognize it only in pure intuition.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
As the speed of the blows increases, further qualitative differences arise; the musical tone rises in pitch until it becomes too acute for the ear to cognize, and thus vanishes from consciousness.
From Through Nature to God by John Fiske
The source of this spiritual Omniscience we may not, in our finite intelligence, fully cognize, because full cognition would preclude the possibility of finite expression.
From Cosmic Consciousness by Alexander J. (Alexander James) McIvor-Tyndall
I can cognize beforehand by analysis the conception of body through the characteristics of extension, impenetrability, shape, etc., all which are cogitated in this conception.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
Everywhere that things exist, they may be paralleled by Intelligences that cognize them.
From Joseph Smith the Prophet-Teacher A Discourse by B. H. Roberts
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 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 question now arises, how is self cognized?
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
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
When they pass beyond that rate of speed, they are cognized as a continuous musical tone of very low pitch; a state of consciousness which seems simple, but which we now see is really compound.
From Through Nature to God by John Fiske
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
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
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
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 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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