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 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

The five physical senses do not cognize it.

From Unity of Good by Eddy, Mary Baker

Everywhere that things exist, they may be paralleled by Intelligences that cognize them.

From Joseph Smith the Prophet-Teacher A Discourse by Roberts, B. H.

And yet it may be that running parallel with those existences, substances and relations unknown to man, there exist intelligences that cognize such existences and relations.

From Joseph Smith the Prophet-Teacher A Discourse by Roberts, B. H.