cognize

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

By quality, that by which I cognize any mode of existence.

From A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Charles Bradlaugh

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

Take away matter, and mortal mind could not cognize its own so-called substance, and this so-called mind would have no identity.

From Unity of Good by Mary Baker Eddy

It has schemes, forms, and objects proportionate to its wider field, which our mental fields are far too narrow to cognize.

From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by William James

To reach God through material thinking is utterly impossible, for He is spirit, and He can be cognized only by a spiritual consciousness.

From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

"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

Some psychologists prefer to restrict the term to the narrower use which excludes all mental states in which particulars are cognized, even though the universal be present also.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various

Thus the conception of body indicates something—for example, metal—which can be cognized by means of that conception.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

First: it is, I suppose, fairly obvious that any given field of cognitive relatedness comprises all that is then and there selectively cognized.

From Spencer's Philosophy of Science The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum 7 November, 1913 by C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd) Morgan

Now the question arises whether the pure conceptions of our understanding do possess significance in respect of these latter, and may possibly be a mode of cognizing them.

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

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

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 B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

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