Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make an object of cognition or thought; perceive; become conscious of; know. Also spelled
cognise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To know or perceive; to recognize.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To know or be aware of.
- verb To select a pattern of information and assign it as an entity.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
Etymologies
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Examples
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Such beings validly cognize a karmic tendency on someone’s mental continuum as having certainty concerning what it will ripen into, but only within the range of that number of eons.
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Together we can see and feel, directly cognize, and intuit a glorious future that is possible to create here and now, in the present moment -- not as a remote ideal but as the most screamingly imminent potential imaginable.
Andrew Z. Cohen: From Spiritual Intoxication To Spiritual Evolution Andrew Z. Cohen 2011
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The ineffable nature of the crimes against nature and humanity are such that we call upon comic relief to alleviate the pain, as to directly cognize, as the famous, Armenian mystic, G.I.
Mitchell J. Rabin: A Call to Consciousness Louder Than Ever Before 2012 Mitchell J. Rabin 2011
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The ineffable nature of the crimes against nature and humanity are such that we call upon comic relief to alleviate the pain, as to directly cognize, as the famous, Armenian mystic, G.I.
Mitchell J. Rabin: A Call to Consciousness Louder Than Ever Before 2012 Mitchell J. Rabin 2011
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However, the stress pattern is different from what you find in “cognize”.
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Some limited beings, before attaining Buddhahood, are able to validly cognize certain “results, which are not yet happening” as a feature of their rebirth state or as an aftermath of strong imprints from attainments gained from meditation done in former lives.
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In other words, we can validly cognize only one moment at a time: prior moments and later moments are presently invalid, though existent.
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Regardless of our level of attainment, when we cognize the presently-happening five aggregate factors on our own mental continuum and thus cognize our own mental continuum and our own mere “me,” all the other noncongruent affecting variables imputable on our mental continuum also appear to our cognition.
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Together we can see and feel, directly cognize, and intuit a glorious future that is possible to create here and now, in the present moment -- not as a remote ideal but as the most screamingly imminent potential imaginable.
Andrew Z. Cohen: From Spiritual Intoxication to Spiritual Evolution 2009
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According to the Gelug interpretation of Svatantrika, this means that both the proponent and opponent validly cognize defining characteristics (mtshan-nyid) findable on the sides of these items that establish the conventional existence of these items.
The Five Great Madhyamaka Lines of Reasoning Used to Establish Voidness 2009
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