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- verb Present participle of
cognize .
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Examples
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One way of taking these observations in the direction of constructing a more complete effort at "cognizing" society is perhaps not quite right, but it is intriguing.
Archive 2008-06-01 Daniel Little 2008
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One way of taking these observations in the direction of constructing a more complete effort at "cognizing" society is perhaps not quite right, but it is intriguing.
Cognizing society Daniel Little 2008
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In each moment, each person does something different, such as cognizing a different object.
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That commonsense yoghurt is a conventional object of experience (tha-snyad spyod-yul), a validly knowable object that maintains its own individual essential nature as yoghurt, and not as something else, to a certain group of beings validly cognizing it.
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Perceiving things “merely nonconceptually” means cognizing them [not merely without it being through the medium of a conceptual category, but also] without an understanding of their lack of a truly established identity or “soul.”
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Their existence can only be established in the context of the valid cognitions of them, in which case they derive from the same karmic tendency, on the mental continuum of the person cognizing them, as does the consciousness cognizing them.
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They are “denumerable” in the sense that they can be counted among what appears to minds validly cognizing phenomena through mentally labeling them with words and concepts.
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They are “nondenumerable” in the sense that they cannot be counted among what appears to minds validly cognizing phenomena through mentally labeling them with words and concepts.
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Gelug is unique in asserting that conceptual and nonconceptual cognition both give rise to appearances of true existence (bden-snang), except when nonconceptually cognizing voidness: an absolute absence of true existence.
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Thus, tantra includes a special level of mental activity for cognizing voidness, but not all classes of tantra employ it.
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