But by the mere fact of His thinking it, it would have become external to Him; I call it exterior, if the cognizing power within Him differed from that which would be known; if on the contrary they fuse, what would He seek?
It must become similar to both of them; to the exterior object because it suffers, and to the cognizing soul because the passion which it experiences becomes a form.
But when intelligence cognizes, and is cognizing intelligibles, intelligence could never even meet them if they are cognized as lying outside of Intelligence.
Of the cognitive powers of the mind, the first to be noticed, according to the analysis and distribution already given, is the Presentative Power--the power of cognizing external objects through the senses.
But how is the unextended soul capable of cognizing extended body?
He had approached things in the full confidence that the human mind was capable of cognizing them, and with a naïve trust in the power of reason to possess itself of the truth.
From this we perceive the possibility of cognizing a priori a law of changes--a law, however, which concerns their form merely.
Now the question arises whether the pure conceptions of our understanding do possess significance in respect of these latter, and may possibly be a mode of cognizing them.
But this principle prescribes no law to objects, and does not contain any ground of the possibility of cognizing or of determining them as such, but is merely a subjective law for the proper arrangement of the content of the understanding.
Hence, pure reason is the faculty which contains the principles of cognizing anything absolutely a priori.
This contact must then be of some kind of atom which resides in the body ensouled by the cognizing soul.
From the illumination of objects also we can infer the presence of this self-cognizing knowledge.
Incapable of cognizing both time and eternity, it makes them absolute negations of each other.
Its heaven, Nirvana, is indeed the world of infinite bliss; but, incapable of cognizing the infinite, it calls it nothing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cognizing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
