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noun
Cognition  n.  
1.
The act of knowing; knowledge; perception. "I will not be myself nor have cognation Of what I feel: I am all patience."
2.
That which is known.





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"Cognition" Quotes from Famous Books



... simple and straight-ahead as the "Crimes of Futurity," that any ass might arrive at, ay, simply deduct from history. I felt capable of a much greater effort than that; I was in a fitting mood to overcome difficulties, and I decided on a treatise, in three sections, on "Philosophical Cognition." This would, naturally, give me an opportunity of crushing pitiably some of Kant's sophistries ... but, on taking out my writing materials to commence work, I discovered that I no longer owned a pencil: I had forgotten it in the pawn-office. ...
— Hunger • Knut Hamsun
... man is pre-mental, and has nothing to do with cognition. It is the same as in the animals. And this pre-mental consciousness remains as long as we live the powerful root and body of our consciousness. The mind is but the last ...
— Fantasia of the Unconscious • D. H. Lawrence


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