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Definition of Cogitable
1. Adjective. Capable of being thought about. "Space flight to other galaxies becomes more cogitable"
Definition of Cogitable
1. a. Capable of being brought before the mind as a thought or idea; conceivable; thinkable.
Definition of Cogitable
1. Adjective. thinkable, conceivable, able to be imagined. ¹
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Definition of Cogitable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cogitable
Literary usage of Cogitable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mental Science: A Compendium of Psychology, and the History of Philosophy by Alexander Bain (1870)
"Scotus maintained that the cogitable or Incorporeal Universal was the first, the
true and complete real ; from whence the sensible individuals were ..."
2. Mental Science: A Compendium of Psychology, and the History of Philosophy by Alexander Bain (1886)
"At the same time, Plato again presents to us the cogitable ... It is this cogitable
Universal that is alone real; Sensible Particulars are not real, ..."
3. Mental and Moral Science: A Compendium of Psychology and Ethics by Alexander Bain (1868)
"At the same time, Plato again presents to us the cogitable Universals as the ...
It is this cogitable Universal that is alone real; Sensible Particulars are ..."
4. The Metaphysic of Ethics by Immanuel Kant, John William Semple, Henry Calderwood (1886)
"... we never could hope attain this connection, because the causality of
freedom .ust be sought always beyond the sensible world, in the cogitable. ..."
5. Handbook of Moral Philosophy by Henry Calderwood (1884)
"This theory of the cogitable world, as distinguished from the sensible world—the
world of human causality, in which man acts as a ..."
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