Nay, more, reason itself cannot cogitatethem as according with the general laws of experience.
For the conception merely enables me to cogitate an object as according with the general conditions of experience; while the existence of the object permits me to cogitate it as contained in the sphere of actual experience.
In this sense, we do notcogitate an object, but merely the relation to the self-consciousness of the subject, as the form of thought.
Now we can cogitate all the powers and faculties of the soul--even that of consciousness--as diminished by one half, the substance still remaining.
But if we cogitate existence by the pure category alone, it is not to be wondered at, that we should find ourselves unable to present any criterion sufficient to distinguish it from mere possibility.
Whether I cogitatethe number in the addition of both, is not at present the question; for in the case of an analytical proposition, the only point is whether I really cogitate the predicate in the representation of the subject.
Thus, if to know is to cogitate, then to know many things should be to cogitate many things.
A man may know many things, but he cannot cogitate many things; therefore, to know is not to cogitate.
Aristotle expressly says: "You cannot cogitate without a phantasm or without a continuous image.
That the soul cannot cogitate or reason without phantasms--that phantasms are required for the actual working of the human Nous--he affirms in the most explicit manner.
So in cogitation, even when we are not cogitating a determinate quantum, we nevertheless set before our eyes a determinate quantum, but we do not cogitate it quatenus determinate.
Mentalities and morale of varying calibre cogitate upon this matter at varying lengths, but I doubt in the end if there is much difference in the conclusion arrived at.
Ten seconds more for another gun crew to cogitate on whether disaster hung on the dart of a firing pin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cogitate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
