cognize

Example Sentences

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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

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

Take away matter, and mortal mind could not cognize its own so-called substance, and this so-called mind would have no identity.

From Unity of Good by Eddy, Mary Baker

Now, an idea is clear when we cognize its object not as an individual thing, but in its connection, as a link in the causal chain, as necessary, and as a mode of God.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard

As the speed of the blows increases, further qualitative differences arise; the musical tone rises in pitch until it becomes too acute for the ear to cognize, and thus vanishes from consciousness.

From Through Nature to God by Fiske, John