incognizable

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If they are utterly incognizable, how does Hamilton know that they are contradictory?

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

And in the very act of declaring the First Cause incognizable, you do not permit it to remain unknown.

From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George

"The Unconditioned is incognizable and inconceivable; its notion being only negative of the conditioned, which last can alone be positively known or conceived."

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

By entite is generally understood a substance which the imagination grasps, but which is incognizable by the senses and the reason.

From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)

The cause of the empirical condition of this progression—and consequently at what member therein I must stop, and at what point in the regress I am to find this member—is transcendental, and hence necessarily incognizable.

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