cognize

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We can only cognize the ever-succeeding phenomena of existence as a line in continuous and eternal evolution.

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

It is not merely through my thinking that I cognize an object, but only through my determining a given intuition in relation to the unity of consciousness in which all thinking consists.

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

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 James, H. R. (Henry Rosher)

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 Putnam, Allen

The five physical senses do not cognize it.

From Unity of Good by Eddy, Mary Baker