cognize
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The philosophic endeavour to cognize the whole system of things by referring all events to their causes appears to him to be from the outset doomed to failure.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
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
The Absolute includes the idea of necessity, which the mind cannot cognize.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
But, assuming that "conceive" is a general term for cognize, the conclusion developed just above is inevitable.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones
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
Or why does it not throw off its shackles and look directly at the object to be cognized, instead of submitting to dependence upon so frail a thing as fleshly eyes and nerves?
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
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
I cognized the center of the empyrean as a point of intuitive perception in my heart.
From Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
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
It is important to notice that Hume, in regard to this problem, distinctly separates Mathematics. geometry from algebra and arithmetic, i.e. he views extensive quantity as being cognized differently from number.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various
The cognizing subject is related to that which is the object of cognition--to a thing which is outside the mind.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
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
From this we perceive the possibility of cognizing a priori a law of changes—a law, however, which concerns their form merely.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
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
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
