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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An object of cognition.

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Examples

  • God as the First Object of our Knowledge (primum cognitum)

    Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol) 2009

  • Is it the actual thing in the world which is thought about; is it a common nature or some other kind of intermediary entity which is distinct from the external object without being mind-dependent; or is it a special kind of mind-dependent object which has only objective being, the being of being thought (esse objective, esse cognitum)?

    Medieval Theories of Analogy Ashworth, E. Jennifer 2009

  • God as the First Object of our Knowledge (primum cognitum) 9.

    Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol) 2009

  • The apparent contrast between these two theories is lessened when we recognize that for Henry God is the primum cognitum of our intellect, not because of the evidence, but because of the absolute indeterminacy of our concept of God.

    Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol) 2009

  • In describing the role of divine illumination in the cognitive process of the human intellect (see above, §2), Henry is always careful to specify that God functions only as ratio cognoscendi and not as obiectum cognitum.

    Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol) 2009

  • [For a reinterpretation of Leibniz, with an eye to tropes inter alia, see C. Schneider (2001), bearing in mind Leibniz's own words: “Interpretari est docere circa orationem seu orationem non satis cognitum facere cognitum.”]

    Tropes Bacon, John 2008

  • For Guibert of Tournai, Bonaventure and Henry of Ghent, God is the primum cognitum (Goris 1999), for Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus being (ens), for Berthold of Moosburg the good

    Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on the Latin West Hasse, Dag Nikolaus 2008

  • Quia malum non evitatum nisi cognitum, ideo necesse est cognoscere immundiciem coitus et multa alla quæ docentur in isto libro.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • I mean, either he or she is liberal with white guilt where he or she thinks that the first black president should be dark black with only black issues at his helm or he or she is a conservative in cognitum.

    Oh, help delagar 2008

  • I will conclude in his lines, Si me cognitum haberes, non solum donares nobis has facetias nostras, sed etiam indignum duceres, tam humanum aninum, lene ingenium, vel minimam suspicionem deprecari oportere.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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