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If without knowledge of terrestrial phenomena and their laws, Newton had attempted a theory of planetary and stellar equilibrium, he might have cogitated to all eternity without result.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.

If we keep to what is contained in the conception, the judgement is merely analytical—it is merely an explanation of what we have cogitated in the conception.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

Thus cogitated Archibald--that is to say, thus he might have cogitated, for there is no direct evidence of what passed through his mind.

From Archibald Malmaison by Hawthorne, Julian