cognize

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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

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.

By some instinct, it is able to cognize a dying apple.

From The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)

By quality, 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

The external and the internal ear, like the ear-trumpet, are purely material, and by means of them we are able to cognize those material emanations called sound.

From Beyond by Hubbard, Henry Seward