cognize
Example Sentences
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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
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 James, William
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 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)
Man is more than physical personality, or what we cognize through the material senses.
From No and Yes by Eddy, Mary Baker
