But reason must cognisecausality with respect to the actions of the will in the sensible world in a definite manner; otherwise, practical reason could not really produce any action.
Opinion finds in a priori judgements no place whatever, for by them we either cognisesomething as quite certain or else cognise nothing at all.
For Reason, which must cognise the necessity of every form of a natural product in order to comprehend even the conditions of its genesis, cannot assume such [natural] necessity in that particular given form.
To this latter it is of more service to make nature comprehensible according to analogy with the subjective ground of the connexion of our representations, than to cognise it from objective grounds.
Concepts (which merely extend to the possibility of an object) and sensible intuitions (which give us something without allowing us to cognise it thus as an object) would both disappear.
Every rational being would yet have to cognise himself as straitly bound by the precepts of morality, for its laws are formal and command unconditionally without respect to purposes (as the matter of volition).
The Judgement then in respect of the particular can cognise no purposiveness and, consequently, can form no determinant judgements, without having a universal law under which to subsume that particular.
For as units of Feeling are the only entities of which we are, or can be, conscious, they are the entities into which units of Force must be, so to speak, subjectively translated before we can cognise their existence at all.
Through the cognition of the real shell we do notcognise the unreal silver of which the shell is the substrate.
And how can one subject cognise what has been apprehended through the senses of another?
In general, wherever we cognise the relation of distinguishing attribute and thing distinguished thereby, the two clearly present themselves to our mind as absolutely different.
The outcome of all this is that we have to cognise Brahman as carrying plurality within itself, and the world, which is the manifestation of his power, as something real.
If, on the other hand, the substance changes, then it is not unknowable, or uncognisable, for by cognising its changes we cognise it.
Its states, its behaviour under varying circumstances, that is to say the characteristics of its motions, are all that we can cognise in respect of matter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cognise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
