This fundamental truth is thus not a syllogism, but a not further deducible, self-evident, immediate cognition, a pure intuitionsum cogitans.

This is denied, however, to us men, who are never able to rise above the opposition of sensuous and intellectual cognition.

To judge of the relation of the human mind to the mind of lower beings, we must consider the superiority of man's body to other bodies; the more complex a body is, and the greater the variety of the affections of which it is capable, the better and more adapted for adequate cognition, the accompanying mind.

Objective cognition is confined within the circle of our representations; all that is knowable is phenomenon.

In the case of many instincts, it would seem that the craving for the object precedes the distinct cognition of it; that the object is only ascertained when, after various tentative gropings, it is stumbled upon, almost, it might seem, by chance.

The former are reached through combination; the latter by negation, by thinking away the limitations of empirical cognition, by removing the limits from the concepts of the understanding.

This fundamental truth is thus not a syllogism, but a not further deducible, self-evident, immediate cognition, a pure intuitionsum cogitans.

Intuition is finite cognition, thought infinite cognition,

Intuition is finite cognition, thought infinite cognition,

The concept of the philosophy of reflection is mediate cognition, moving in the sphere of the abstract and universal.

The System.% Hegel began with a Phenomenology by way of introduction, in which (not to start, like the school of Schelling, with absolute knowledge "as though shot from a pistol") he describes the genesis of philosophical cognition with an attractive mingling of psychological and philosophico-historical points of view.

Scythrop's romantic dreams had given him many pure anticipated cognitions of combinations of beauty and intelligence, which, he had some misgivings, were not realised by Marionetta, but he soon became distractedly in love, which, when the lady perceived, she altered her tactics and assumed coldness and reserve.

Each crowns the work of his predecessor with a unifying conclusion; each demands and offers a genetic psychology which finds the origin of all the spiritual functionsfrom sensation and feelings of pleasure and pain up to rational cognition and moral willin a single fundamental power of the soul.

It is there proved by speculative cognition that Reasonand this term may here suffice us, without investigating the relation sustained by the universe to the Divine Beingis substance, as well as Infinite Power; its own Infinite Material is that underlying all the natural and spiritual life which it originates, as also the Infinite Formthat which sets this material in motion.

In the "transcendental" exposition of space and time Kant follows this "metaphysical" exposition, which had to prove their non-empirical, and non-discursive, hence their a priori and intuitive, character, with the proof that only such an explanation of space and time could make it conceivable how synthetic cognitions a priori can arise from them.

If we except two concepts which limit our knowledge, chaos and Godabsolute formlessness or chaos is an idea just as incapable of realization as absolute unity or deityevery actual cognition is a product of both factors, of the sensuous organization and of reason.

But by the very act of thoughtful cognition and volition, I will the universal objectthe substance of absolute Reason.

While at first it was maintained that all representation is subject to the principle of sufficient reason, we are now told that, besides causal cognition, there is a higher knowledge, one which is free from the control of this principle, viz., aesthetic and philosophical intuition.

This fundamental truth is thus not a syllogism, but a not further deducible, self-evident, immediate cognition, a pure intuitionsum cogitans.

It was long before I had the most distant cognition of her; but at last together we made her out to be Louisa, the daughter of Mrs. Topham, formerly Mrs. Morton, who had been Mrs. Reynolds, formerly Mrs. Kenney, whose first husband was Holcroft, the dramatic writer of the last century.