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

The Absolute includes the idea of necessity, which the mind cannot cognize.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Yet we cognize him, but this is by an immediate intuition, in which we know him as he is in himself.

From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jones, Jesse 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.

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