Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being cognoscible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being cognoscible.
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- noun The quality of being
cognoscible .
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Examples
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Agnostics generally, together with a considerable number of scientists of the present day, would not improperly be described as either doubtful or dogmatically negative as to the reality, meaning, and cognoscibility of essence.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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It does not necessarilly follow, because the natural cognoscibility of a personal First Cause is denied, that His existence is called in question: nor, when matter is called upon to explain itself, that God is critically denied.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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