cogitatio

Because the Latin word "cogitatio" [thought] implies a research, for "cogitare" [to think] seems to be equivalent to

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

Also: Hugh of St. Victor recalls Augustine's classification of rational vision into cogitatio, meditatio, and contemplatio: "cogitatio is bound to particular things, either to sensations or memories." back

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Augustine describes the active nature of thought through the term cogitatio: Once they [thoughts] have been dispersed, I have to collect them again, and this is the derivation of the word cogitare, which means to think or to collect one's thoughts.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Through cogitatio, "a combinative or compositional activity of the mind," 100 the mind is brought under its own gaze to select, arrange and recombine its contents according to circumstance. 101 The ability to concentrate, to shift focus adroitly from one's immediate surroundings, was essential for Federico to form prompt and sound judgments, whether in the course of battle or in civil affairs.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Quid non faetui adhuc matri unito, subita spirituum vibratione per nervos, quibus matrix cerebro conjuncta est, imprimit impregnatae imaginatio? ut si imaginetur matum granatum, illius notas secum proferet faetus: Si leporem, infans editur supremo labello bifido, et dissecto: Vehemens cogitatio movet rerum species.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

This higher-order view fits in well with Husserl's claim (from sec. 35 ff. of Ideas) that intentional experiences are nothing but “actual or potential cogitationes”, where a given momentary intentional state is an actual cogitatio if and only if its subject is consciously aware of (being in) that state.

Edmund Husserl Beyer, Christian 2007

Vehemens et assidua cogitatio rei erga quam afficitur, spiritus in cerebrum evocat.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Assidua cogitatio super rem desideratum, cum confidentia obtinendi, ut spe apprehensum delectabile, &c.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Illorum cogitatio nunquam cessat qui pecunias supplere diligunt.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Corde meo: and, Delictum meum tibi cognitum feci: and, Deus meus es tu, et confitebor tibi; and, Quoniam cogitatio hominis confitebitur tibi; &c.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004