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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being cognizable. Also spelled cognisability.

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  • If, a vase arose as truly existently cognizable from its own side, there would be no need for it to be connected with the truly existent universal category of cognizability, which the Nyaya-Vaisheshikas assert as necessary for cognition; the vase would already be cognizable.

    Summary of Aryadeva's Four Hundred Verses 2007

  • 61 Carter admitted later that a better name for the overall principle would be 'cognizability principle' rather than the already entrenched term 'anthropic principle': B. Carter, 'The anthropic principle and its implications for biological evolution', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A, 310, 1983, 347-63.

    The God Delusion Dawkins, Richard, 1941- 2006

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