cognitio

It is also narrower than Calvin's term cognitio ', which is much closer to our contemporary use of knowledge'.

Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

Given this account of Descartes's epistemology, we can now see that both cognitio and scientia are varieties of, not only knowledge, but certainty as well.

Certainty Reed, Baron 2008

At first glance, it seems that Descartes draws the distinction between cognitio and scientia precisely so he can deny certainty to the atheist mathematician.

Certainty Reed, Baron 2008

This is the sense in which the atheist mathematician's cognitio, or clear awareness, is imperfect.

Certainty Reed, Baron 2008

Turpe enim est homini ignorare sui corporis (ut ita dicam) aedificium, praesertim cum ad valetudinem et mores haec cognitio plurimum conducat.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Vos vero veluti in templum ac sacrarium quoddam vos duci putetis, &c. Suavis et utilis cognitio.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

In it, Leibniz sets out a series of distinctions for human knowledge or cognition (cognitio): knowledge is either obscure or clear; clear knowledge is either confused or distinct; distinct knowledge is either inadequate or adequate; and adequate knowledge is either symbolic or intuitive.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Look, Brandon C. 2007

The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledge of man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.

Nature 2006

His definition of philosophy as a cognitio artium liberalium, a knowledge of the liberal arts, reveals both the influence of Stoicism and of the medieval educational tradition.

Petrus Ramus Sellberg, Erland 2006

Ramus 'followers often substituted the word doctrina for cognitio, which made it even clearer that the perspective was more pedagogical than ontological (Cf. Ramus, Dialectica, p. 11, where he uses another variant, defining philosophy as a comprehensio praeceptorum, a collection of precepts).

Petrus Ramus Sellberg, Erland 2006