cognize
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The things we do not see or cognize with the physical senses are called mental, or spiritual.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
Still, you could not cognize in concreto the object of your ideas in any experience.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
Man is more than physical personality, or what we cognize through the material senses.
From No and Yes by Mary Baker Eddy
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
By some instinct, it is able to cognize a dying apple.
From The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
The âtman says Gau@dapâda is at once the cognizer and the cognized, the world subsists in the âtman through mâyâ.
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 question now arises, how is self cognized?
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
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
I find that existence manifested variously, each mode having certain variations of attributes by which it is cognized.
From A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Charles Bradlaugh
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
The representation of the empirical manifold of separately existing individual things, together with the organ thereof, Spinoza terms imaginatio; the faculty of cognizing the true reality, the one, all-embracing substance, he calls intellectus.
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
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
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
