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cogitable, a. (and n.)|ˈkɒdʒɪtəb(ə)l|
[ad. L. cōgitābil-is thinkable, f. cōgitāre (see below).]
A. adj. That can be thought or conceived; thinkable, conceivable.
a1688Cudworth Immut. Mor. iv. iv. (R.), A time when there was no intelligible nature of a triangle, nor any such thing cogitable at all. 1824Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 142 Convincing the mind that a doctrine is cogitable, that the soul can present the idea to itself. 1850Grote Greece ii. lxvii. (1869) VIII. 143 Something not perceivable by sense, but only cogitable or conceivable by reason.
B. n. Anything thinkable or conceivable.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 857 Yet are not these sensibles..the only things and cogitables. 1694R. Burthogge Reason 79 Cogitables, or Things that have being only in the Faculties that apprehend them. |