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[kog-nahyz] / ˈkɒg naɪz /






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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 Allen Putnam

The five physical senses do not cognize it.

From Unity of Good by Mary Baker Eddy

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

We cannot conceive of any higher creation, because we cannot add an attribute to those we already possess, any more than we can conceive of an additional sense by which to cognize such new attribute.

From The Philosophy of Evolution Together With a Preliminary Essay on The Metaphysical Basis of Science by Stephen H. (Stephen Haskins) Carpenter

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

In deep sleep therefore when no object is cognized the self also is not cognized.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta

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

Prabhâkara holds that the self as cognizor is never cognized apart from the cognized object, nor is the object ever cognized without the cognizor entering into the cognition as a necessary factor.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta

This feeling is cognized by the intellectual faculty, and of this the person is conscious.

From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones

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

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

Incapable of cognizing both time and eternity, it makes them absolute negations of each other.

From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by James Freeman Clarke

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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