Definitions for cognize

cognize cog·nize

Spelling: [kog-nahyz]
IPA: /ˈkɒg naɪz/

Cognize is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in cognize (ceginoz).

Definitions for cognize

verb (used with object)

  1. to perceive; become conscious of; know.

Origin of cognize

First recorded in 1650-60; back formation from cognizance

Examples for cognize

Yet we cognize him, but this is by an immediate intuition, in which we know him as he is in himself.

By attribute, I understand that by which I cognize any mode of existence.

To think an object and to cognize an object are by no means the same thing.

To know or cognize is, to know the Cause; when we know the Cause, we are satisfied with our cognition.

But, assuming that "conceive" is a general term for cognize, the conclusion developed just above is inevitable.

When we cognize an object we do it by referring that object to the class of objects which in one or more respects it resembles.

Still, you could not cognize in concreto the object of your ideas in any experience.

Thus we cognize only the necessity of effects in nature, the causes of which are given us.

What we cognize in matter is nothing but relations (what we call its internal determinations are but comparatively internal).

Cognition from principles, then, is that cognition in which I cognize the particular in the general by means of conceptions.

Word Value for cognize
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19

Words with friends

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