Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the power of knowing; cognitive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Having the power of knowing.
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- adjective having the
power ofknowing
Etymologies
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Examples
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St. Bonaventure, the pupil, follows on the same lines in his "Commentarium in II Sent." (dist. xxxix), with the difference that he locates the synteresis as calor et pondus in the will only distinguishing it from the conscience in the practical intellect, which he calls an innate habit -- "rationale iudicatorium, habitus cognoscitivus moralium principiorum" -- "a rational judgment, a habit cognoscitive of moral principles".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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This power is cognoscitive and non-cognoscitive, moral and indifferent to morality, agreeable and yet detached from the pleasure of the senses.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909
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Hegel accentuated the _cognoscitive_ character of art, more than any of his predecessors.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909
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Its meaning here is that of a special activity, of non-cognoscitive nature, but possessing its two poles, positive and negative, in _pleasure_ and _pain_.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909
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Let us, however, repeat that they are founded on quantitative distinctions and do not disprove, but confirm the fact that an action, however slight it be, cannot really be an action, that is, an action that is willed, unless it be preceded by cognoscitive activity.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909
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Man is not simply knowledge and contemplation: he is also will, which contains in it the cognoscitive moment.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909
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But prudence does not pertain to the appetitive powers but rather to the cognoscitive.
On Prayer and The Contemplative Life Aquinas Thomas 1907
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Lastly, all special kinds of acts belong either to the appetitive or to the cognoscitive faculties.
On Prayer and The Contemplative Life Aquinas Thomas 1907
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Just as the contemplative life pertains to the cognoscitive powers, so does the active life pertain to the appetitive powers.
On Prayer and The Contemplative Life Aquinas Thomas 1907
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The self-conscious personality unfolds its life under a variety of forms. — (1) Man is a knowing, a cognoscitive, spirit, — he takes objects spiritually, that is, according to their idea, into himself, and thus makes them his enduring possession.
Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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