Adjective : cognoscitive powers. From Dictionary.com.
But prudence does not pertain to the appetitive powers but rather to the cognoscitive. From Wordnik.com. [On Prayer and The Contemplative Life] Reference
Lastly, all special kinds of acts belong either to the appetitive or to the cognoscitive faculties. From Wordnik.com. [On Prayer and The Contemplative Life] Reference
Man is not simply knowledge and contemplation: he is also will, which contains in it the cognoscitive moment. From Wordnik.com. [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference
Even if the navigation is perfect from a cognoscitive point of view, if the wrong colors are used the effect will be lost. From Wordnik.com. [TWiki.Codev] Reference
Just as the contemplative life pertains to the cognoscitive powers, so does the active life pertain to the appetitive powers. From Wordnik.com. [On Prayer and The Contemplative Life] Reference
This power is cognoscitive and non-cognoscitive, moral and indifferent to morality, agreeable and yet detached from the pleasure of the senses. From Wordnik.com. [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference
But sofas and ottomans, and chairs and footstools, and screens -- and above all, beds -- all are fixtures in the dwelling of a wise man, cognoscitive and sensitive of the blessings of this life. From Wordnik.com. [Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2] Reference
The self-conscious personality unfolds its life under a variety of forms. — (1) Man is a knowing, a cognoscitive, spirit, — he takes objects spiritually, that is, according to their idea, into himself, and thus makes them his enduring possession. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics.] Reference
Virtue expresses itself either as enlivening or as militant: as enlivening, it expresses the harmonious union of reason and nature; as militant, it overcomes the resistance of nature; under another phase it is either cognoscitive or representative; thus we arrive at four cardinal virtues: — the enlivening virtue as cognoscitive or representative is wisdom or soundness of judgment; as representative it is love; the militant virtue as cognoscitive is prudence; as representative it is persistence. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics.] Reference
Prose and poetry -- The relation of first and second degree -- Inexistence of other cognoscitive forms -- Historicity -- Identity and difference in respect of art -- Historical criticism -- Historical scepticism -- Philosophy as perfect science. From Wordnik.com. [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference
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