Cognize vs Cognizer - What's the difference?
cognize | cognizer |
To know or be aware of.
* 1934 , :
To select a pattern of information and assign it as an entity.
One who, or that which, cognizes.
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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)- [T]hey must possess organs of sight—some method of cognizing their environment—akin to that of vision in man.