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  • noun One who, or that which, cognizes.

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cognize +‎ -er

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Examples

  • But according to Kant it is also possible for a rational cognizer to use the very same propositional content in different ways.

    Kant's Theory of Judgment Hanna, Robert 2009

  • In this way pure general logic is absolutely binding on any rational human cognizer and provides an unconditional logical ought.

    Kant's Theory of Judgment Hanna, Robert 2009

  • The rational pro-attitude of taking-for-true implies the subjective validity of a judgment, or its apparent meaningfulness and apparent truth for an individual cognizer.

    Kant's Theory of Judgment Hanna, Robert 2009

  • Returning to the demon-deceived cognizer, his beliefs can be described as lacking strong justifiedness but possessing weak justifiedness.

    Reliabilism Goldman, Alvin 2008

  • As with DharmakÄ«rti, Śāntaraká¹£ita describes valid knowledge or valid cognitions as instants of new knowledge in the sense that the cognizer knows newly something which to that point was unknown.

    Śāntarakṣita Blumenthal, James 2008

  • This says that a cognizer, to be justified, must not have reason to believe that her first-order belief isn't reliably caused.

    Reliabilism Goldman, Alvin 2008

  • The account reflects the Aristotelian doctrine that in cognizing, the cognizer becomes identical to or “like” the thing cognized (De Anima 5, 7 (430a20, 431a1)): the thing and the sense organ and the intellect all realize the very same form, albeit in different manners or modes.

    Descartes' Theory of Ideas Pessin, Andrew 2007

  • Chatton criticized this theory relentlessly, primarily on the ground that concepts as ficta are an unnecessary intermediary between the cognizer and the thing cognized, such that the cognizer would be immediately aware only of the general concept, and not of the individuals picked out by the general concept.

    Walter Chatton Keele, Rondo 2007

  • ˜God knows a™ attaches to God as a necessary cognizer, i.e., it attaches to the divine intellect alone, not to the objects it cognizes or to some distinct, determinate body of truths called ˜God's knowledge™.

    Walter Chatton Keele, Rondo 2007

  • Although the details of Maimon's answer to this problem remain obscure, the kernel of his position can be found in his analysis of what it is to be a finite cognizer.

    Salomon Maimon Thielke, Peter 2007

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