It is by the breaks, the turnings in the road that we cognise its course.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge] Reference

One cannot mistake state A for state B since one must first cognise state A.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mulla Sadra] Reference

But there is no analogous “hard school” in which we learn how to deploy verbs such as ˜cognise™ and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbert Ryle] Reference

A debate would only demonstrate who is more appealing, articulate and cognise of the nation and world issues and prepared to address them.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain campaign again challenges Obama over town halls] Reference

Again, if you clinically crazy, if you clinally a mad-man, if your someone who is a liar and can not see your hand in front of your face, or cognise simpleton issues–yet they “are doing what they think is right”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » POLL: Active Duty U.S. Soldiers Disapprove Of Bush Handling Of War, Do Not Support Escalation] Reference

By bringing in the quinquennial series, Vandin wishes to assert that the five senses are competent to cognise their respective objects and that besides these senses and their objects there is neither any other sense to perceive nor any other object of perception.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference

All science proceeds thus, and the reason that savants have not unearthed the precious object for which they seek with such wonderful perseverance is that the physical senses, even when aided by the most delicate instruments, are able to cognise only a portion of the physical Universe -- the denser portion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution] Reference

December, 1806. cognise, in those Slates they are slaves — they must be slaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The debates and proceedings in the Congress of the United States : with an appendix containing important state papers and public documents, and all the laws of a public nature; with a copious index; compiled from authentic materials] Reference

Through the cognition of the real shell we do not cognise the unreal silver of which the shell is the substrate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference

Does it not seem as though, since the motions or states are all that we cognise, they should be all that we need take account of?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Note-Books of Samuel Butler] Reference

If, on the other hand, the substance changes, then it is not unknowable, or uncognisable, for by cognising its changes we cognise it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Note-Books of Samuel Butler] Reference

For without a knowledge of the nature of those constitutive elements it is impossible to cognise the difference of the soul from them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1] Reference

Its states, its behaviour under varying circumstances, that is to say the characteristics of its motions, are all that we can cognise in respect of matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Note-Books of Samuel Butler] Reference

And how can one subject cognise what has been apprehended through the senses of another? and how is one subject to take to itself what another subject has cognised?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference

The inorganic is less expert in differentiating its feelings, therefore its memory of them must be less enduring; it cannot recognise what it could scarcely cognise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Note-Books of Samuel Butler] Reference

It is these sensations and ideas that we directly cognise, and it is to them that we have attached the idea of the particular kind of matter we happen to be thinking of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Luck or Cunning?] Reference

The outcome of all this is that we have to cognise Brahman as carrying plurality within itself, and the world, which is the manifestation of his power, as something real.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference

In general, wherever we cognise the relation of distinguishing attribute and thing distinguished thereby, the two clearly present themselves to our mind as absolutely different.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference

But reason must cognise causality with respect to the actions of the will in the sensible world in a definite manner; otherwise, practical reason could not really produce any action.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Critique of Practical Reason] Reference

The koilon is to us non-manifestation, because we have not unfolded powers which enable us to cognise it, and it may be the manifestation of a loftier order of LOGOI, utterly beyond our ken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements] Reference

Dec. 28, l-SOO, Mr. Cobb married a Miss Stanfeil, of Fratfon, in Hampshire; and his friends re - cognise in him the man of wit and the genileman, distinguished by a liberal mind and open hi? art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:] Reference

Thus, for example, the doctrine of Materialism is no more "ruled out" by the reflection that what we cognise as cerebral matter is only cognised relatively, than would the doctrine of chemical equivalents be.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Candid Examination of Theism] Reference

For as units of Feeling are the only entities of which we are, or can be, conscious, they are the entities into which units of Force must be, so to speak, subjectively translated before we can cognise their existence at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Candid Examination of Theism] Reference

Unfortunately a country that has Ashoka (who renounced war and became a pacifist) as its model and hence does not even cognise the fact that it is amidst a war runs the risk of being a failure as a State and faces the prospect of disintegration.    From Wordnik.com.  [IntelliBriefs] Reference

We recognise certain varying states or conditions of matter and give one state one name, and another another, as though it were a man or a dog; but it is the state not the matter that we cognise, just as it is the man's moods and outward semblance that we alone note, while knowing nothing of the man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Note-Books of Samuel Butler] Reference

There are therefore two very distinct problems: how, on the one side, pure reason can cognise objects a priori, and how on the other side it can be an immediate determining principle of the will, that is, of the causality of the rational being with respect to the reality of objects (through the mere thought of the universal validity of its own maxims as laws).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Critique of Practical Reason] Reference

"ruled out" by the parallel reflection that what we cognise as chemical elements are only cognised relatively.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Candid Examination of Theism] Reference

Now all these souls are deficient in insight into the true nature of the highest reality, their understandings being obscured by Nescience operating in the form of beginningless karman; and hence those texts only are fully useful to them which teach that there exists a highest Brahman -- which the souls in the state of release may cognise as non-different from themselves, and which then, through its own essential nature, qualities, power and energies, imparts to those souls bliss infinite and unsurpassable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference

What is it after all, to cognise?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertums. English] Reference

For I cognise another lord above.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2] Reference

Changes are the only things that we can cognise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Note-Books of Samuel Butler] Reference

True, discontinuity, where development is normal, is on a very small scale, but this is only the difference between looking at distances on a small instead of a large map; we cannot have even the smallest change without a small partial corresponding discontinuity; on a small scale -- too small, indeed, for us to cognise -- these breaks in continuity, each one of which must, so far as our understanding goes, rank as a creation, are as essential a factor of the phenomena we see around us, as is the other factor that they shall normally be on too small a scale for us to find it out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Luck or Cunning?] Reference