Sentence examples for as a cognitive impression from inspiring English sources

Doesn't this show that there is no such thing as a cognitive impression?

The Stoics standardly defined a cognitive impression as one that came from what is, was stamped and impressed exactly in accordance with it, and was, accordingly, such that it couldn't be false (see e.g. Sextus Against the Logicians [= Adversus Mathematicos books 7 8, 'M.'] 7.248 or Cicero Ac. 2.77).

When the Stoics say that a cognitive impression is "of such a sort as could not arise from what is not," they can be interpreted to mean that the true clear and distinct impression will be different from a false one.

Most Stoic sources define it as 'assent to the incognitive' (i.e. to an impression that does not firmly grasp its object) (see Sextus Empiricus, 41E) but some suggest that changeable assent to a cognitive impression might still count as opinion.

However, the admission that a cognitive impression might be subjectively indistinguishable from a false impression does alter the sense in which the cognitive impression can serve as a criterion of truth.

If the initial conception of a cognitive impression hangs on the idea that something about its phenomenological nature, or something internal to the impression, marks it as cognitive, the Stoics give up on a crucial assumption if they grant that sometimes there are "impediments".

Zeno argues that a certain kind of impression namely a cognitive impression (phantasia katalêptikê)—is the criterion of truth.

Weak and changeable assent to a cognitive impression is only an act of ignorance.

Assent to a cognitive impression will guarantee that what you assent to is true.

This was again supposed to show thay there could be impressions arising from what is not [sc. a pomegranate] which are indistinguishable from a cognitive impression.

However, the Stoics do not maintain that the mere having of a cognitive impression constitutes knowledge (epistêmê).