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Discover Ludwig"cognizable" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to describe something that can be understood or recognized, or something that is legally enforceable, such as a crime or a debt. For example: "Federal crimes are cognizable nationwide, which means the same laws apply no matter the location."
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cognizable
adjective
Capable of being known or perceived.
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Thus, Paul Williams (1998, 234f) notes that Śāntarakṣita's assertion of the unity of consciousness as reflexive awareness goes against the sort of reductive explanation of cognition that discriminates between agent, act, and object or cognizer, cognized, and cognizable.
A variant is the so-called "saṃvedana- inference": "the object is not different from the cognizing consciousness, because it is being cognized (saṃvedyamāna); only what is essentially identical (tādātmya) with consciousness is cognizable".
Yet lawsuits require plaintiffs to have suffered some kind of cognizable harm before they can have their day in court.
One of these provided that "all matters properly cognizable in the Privy Council... shall be transacted there" and that all resolutions "shall be signed by such of the Privy Council as shall advise and consent to the same".
When considering the issue of remedies, the court followed the traditional presumption that "absent clear direction to the contrary by Congress, the federal courts have the power to award any appropriate relief in a cognizable cause of action brought pursuant to a federal statute".
Standing is a rule that essentially requires that the party asking the court to do something has, in some legally cognizable way, been injured by the decision it's appealing.
It involves the legal doctrine known as "standing," which essentially requires the entity bringing the appeal to have a sufficient and legally cognizable interest in the outcome.
Detainees there were "outside the United States and therefore they have no judicially cognizable rights in United States courts".
McCutcheon specifically addresses the issue of corruption this way: "By its very nature, a contribution to a candidate, political party committee, or PAC that is within the legal base limit — that is, a contribution below the threshold at which Congress determined that a cognizable risk of corruption arises — does not raise the specter of corruption.
"Your challenge does not allege that there was any other cognizable violation of the call in the conduct of their elections, the delegate selection rules for the 2016 Democratic National Convention, or any other rule or regulation of the Democratic National Committee in their selection," wrote the two Democratic officials.
"As aliens detained by the military outside the sovereign territory of the United States and lacking a sufficient connection to the country, petitioners have no cognizable constitutional rights," the brief said.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com