Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not cogitative; not thinking; lacking the power of thought.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not cogitative; not thinking; lacking the power of thought.
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- adjective Not
cogitative ; lacking the power ofthought .
Etymologies
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Examples
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For it is as impossible to conceive that ever bare incogitative matter should produce a thinking intelligent being, as that nothing should of itself produce matter.
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And yet, if they will not allow matter as matter, that is, every particle of matter, to be as well cogitative as extended, they will have as hard a task to make out to their own reasons a cogitative being out of incogitative particles, as an extended being out of unextended parts, if I may so speak.
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Which, if you please, we will hereafter call cogitative and incogitative beings; which to our present purpose, if for nothing else, are perhaps better terms than material and immaterial.
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Being to be nothing else but a composition of particles of matter, each whereof is incogitative, is to ascribe all the wisdom and knowledge of that eternal Being only to the juxta-position of parts; than which nothing can be more absurd.
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Thirdly, because a system of incogitative matter cannot be cogitative.
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But let us suppose motion eternal too: yet matter, incogitative matter and motion, whatever changes it might produce of figure and bulk, could never produce thought: knowledge will still be as far beyond the power of motion and matter to produce, as matter is beyond the power of nothing or nonentity to produce.
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If, therefore, it be evident, that something necessarily must exist from eternity, it is also as evident, that that something must necessarily be a cogitative being: for it is as impossible that incogitative matter should produce a cogitative being, as that nothing, or the negation of all being, should produce a positive being or matter.
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Thirdly, because a system of incogitative matter cannot be cogitative.
God, Aids & Circumcision Hill, George 2005
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But let us suppose motion eternal too: yet matter, incogitative matter and motion, whatever changes it might produce of figure and bulk, could never produce thought: knowledge will still be as far beyond the power of motion and matter to produce, as matter is beyond the power of nothing or nonentity to produce.
God, Aids & Circumcision Hill, George 2005
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Much more, therefore, may our broad distinction between "cogitative and incogitative being" [5] not be a distinction which is "legitimated by the conditions of external reality."
A Candid Examination of Theism George John Romanes 1871
hernesheir commented on the word incogitative
Contrast with unthinking.
June 30, 2012