cognize
Example Sentences
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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
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 Carpenter, Stephen H. (Stephen Haskins)
By attribute, I understand that by which I cognize any mode of existence.
From A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles
Thus we cognize only the necessity of effects in nature, the causes of which are given us.
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)
