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Cognize vs Cognizer - What's the difference?

cognize | cognizer |

As a verb cognize

is to know or be aware of.

As a noun cognizer is

one who, or that which, cognizes.

cognize

English

Alternative forms

* cognise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Verb

(cogniz)
  • To know or be aware of.
  • * 1934 , :
  • [T]hey must possess organs of sight—some method of cognizing their environment—akin to that of vision in man.
  • To select a pattern of information and assign it as an entity.
  • cognizer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, cognizes.
  • *{{quote-journal, 2008, date=September 12, Hamid Vahid, Experience and the Space of Reasons: The Problem of Non-Doxastic Justification, Erkenntnis, url=, doi=10.1007/s10670-008-9121-2, volume=69, issue=3, pages=
  • , passage=So although McDowell takes experiences themselves to justify perceptual beliefs, this task always requires the cognizer to form beliefs or judgments about how the world appears to him (henceforth, ‘appearance beliefs’). }}