cognize

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To things as things in themselves, conformability to law must necessarily belong independently of an understanding to cognize them.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

Man is more than physical personality, or what we cognize through the material senses.

From No and Yes by Eddy, Mary Baker

As if conception could possibly occur except for a teleological purpose, except to show us the way from a state of things our senses cognize to another state of things our will desires!

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William

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

We cannot think any object except by means of the categories; we cannot cognize any thought except by means of intuitions corresponding to these conceptions.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow