incognizable

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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

It predicates contradiction of two extremes, which are asserted to be equally incomprehensible and incognizable.

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 infinite, discharged from all relation to the finite, could never come into apprehension; and the finite, discharged of all relation to the infinite, is incognizable too.

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)

All this time the incognizable nouveau was smoking slowly and calmly, and looking at nothing at all with his black buttonlike eyes.

From The Enormous Room by Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin)