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Meaning of cognite | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1
/ˈkɑɡnaɪt/

Definitions

  1. To become aware, or think so as to become aware, of some fundamental truth.
    intransitive
  2. To think or cogitate (about).
    ambitransitive, nonce-word

Examples

“I abruptly cognited that "Have You Lived Before this Life?" was our first new book in two years.”
“Unlike psychoanalysis or psychiatry, the person (auditor) treating another person never evaluates for them. The processes used are intended to allow the person to cognite on his sins or wrongdoings and change his ways.”
“One requirement, before a preclear can advance beyond a particular level, is that he should "cognite" on everything scientological up to that stage, and a failure to satisfy the organization that one has a reality on all relevant scientology theory to that stage delays the issue of the HPA certificate.”
“Behavior is patterned, but any pattern of behavior is only an abstraction from actual unique sequences of behavior. Society, culture, and personality are merely three different ways of perceiving, cogniting, and organizing these patterns.”
“[…] thus the task of the investigator of cognition is to cognite about the hidden cognitive structure of his subject.”
“Matter, however, can by definition not be cognited – if cognition is, as Aristotle thought, an assimilatory process of “knowing the same by the same,” an identity of the form of the mind with that of the object cognited.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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