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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cognize .
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Examples
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"All contradiction disappears," Kant writes, "if I say: the judgment of taste does depend upon a concept ... but one from which nothing can be cognized in respect of the Object, and nothing proved, because it is in itself indeterminable and useless for knowledge"
Contention and Contestation: Aesthetic Culture in Kant and Bourdieu 2008
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Such forms of physical phenomena can only be validly cognized nonconceptually by mental cognition, and not by sensory cognition.
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How would we validly cognize a “result, which has not yet happened” at the time of the “present-happening of the karmic tendency for that result” and what type of phenomenon would we actually be cognizing when we cognized it?
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Simultaneously, the colored shapes of the “result, which is not yet happening” appear to and are cognized by our mental cognition.
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Totally imaginary forms also include dream forms (rmi-lam-gyi gzugs), cognized nonconceptually by mental cognition, as well as the forms of Buddha-figures that appear in visualization practices, either with conceptual or nonconceptual mental cognition.
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These forms of physical phenomena validly cognized at that time are connected with our own mental continuum, not with the mental continuum of the other person.
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Thus, as an arya, when we validly cognized a “result, which is not yet happening” when focusing on our “presently-happening five aggregate factors,” we would also be validly cognizing: the karmic tendency for this result, its “temporarily not-giving-rise to its result,” its “ability to give rise to this result, which is not yet happening,” the “not-yet-happening of this result,” the absence of the “presently-happening result” of this karmic tendency.
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In other words, the sensory objects we cognize then are being cognized by our sensory consciousness; we are not cognizing objects being cognized by the sensory consciousness of that other person.
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At the time of the karmic tendency for a result – equivalent to the time of the “not-yet-happening of the result” – the “result, which has not yet happened” is an existent, valid, affirmation phenomenon, which means that it can be validly cognized now.
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For most, however, the totally imaginary forms of “results, which are not yet happening” can be validly cognized only on the basis of advanced awareness gained from achieving an actual state of the first level of mental stability through meditation done in this lifetime.
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