And in the very act of declaring the First Cause incognizable, you do not permit it to remain unknown. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
It predicates contradiction of two extremes, which are asserted to be equally incomprehensible and incognizable. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles] Reference
By entité is generally understood a substance which the imagination grasps, but which is incognizable by the senses and the reason. From Wordnik.com. [What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.] Reference
The infinite, discharged from all relation to the finite, could never come into apprehension; and the finite, discharged of all relation to the infinite, is incognizable too. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles] Reference
Now, the context hardly allows of taking "the sea" here in its literal objective sense, requiring rather the interpretation that the natural sea symbolizes by its invisible depths the incognizable state of the dead before resurrection. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Scriptural Doctrine of Immortality] Reference
And as to perfect success, I should be like the panic-stricken shopkeepers in my alarm at it; for I should believe that genii of the air fly above our tree-tops between us and the incognizable spheres, catching those ambitious shafts they deem it a promise of fun to play pranks with. From Wordnik.com. [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference
Their being cast into the depths of "a lake" signifies that they become incognizable entities, and "lake of fire" indicates that they remain such by an irreversible law, fire being the symbol of force of law (see Deut. xxxiii. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Scriptural Doctrine of Immortality] Reference
Are now as e'er incognizable. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3] Reference
And by the incognizable fatherhood. From Wordnik.com. [Two Nations] Reference
“Of things absolutely or in themselves,” says Sir William Hamilton, (19) “be they external, be they internal, we know nothing, or know them only as incognizable; and become aware of their incomprehensible existence, only as this is indirectly and accidentally revealed to us, through certain qualities related to our faculties of knowledge, and which qualities, again, we can not think as unconditional, irrelative, existent in and of ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
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