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The external and the internal ear, like the ear-trumpet, are purely material, and by means of them we are able to cognize those material emanations called sound.

From Beyond by Henry Seward Hubbard

The assize had no more to cognize upon, but his own confession, yet brought him in guilty.

From Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie

For, to do so, I must cognize this being as existing, and yet not in time, which—since I cannot support my conception by any intuition—is impossible.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

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

Substances are distinct from one another when we can clearly and distinctly cognize one without the other.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

The kinds of knowledge differ with the classes of things cognized.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

So consciousness is not a limitation, though all limits when cognized are seen in the light of consciousness.

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

When the sounds of taps or blows impinge upon the ear slowly, at the rate of not more than sixteen in a second, they are cognized as separate and non-musical noises.

From Through Nature to God by John Fiske

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

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

At the same time, it must be carefully borne in mind that, while we surrender the power of cognizing, we still reserve the power of thinking objects, as things in themselves.*

From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

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

Its heaven, Nirvana, is indeed the world of infinite bliss; but, incapable of cognizing the infinite, it calls it nothing.

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

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

He had approached things in the full confidence that the human mind was capable of cognizing them, and with a naïve trust in the power of reason to possess itself of the truth.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg