Sentence examples for faculty of cognition from inspiring English sources

"I've never seen this faculty of cognition before in my life!!"); sometimes it just means working out the funniest possible spin on matters of historical record (technically, Plato was indeed "the stage name of a pro wrestler").

We can trace all faculties of the human mind without exception back to these three: the faculty of cognition, the feeling of pleasure and displeasure, and the faculty of desire.

To be sure, philosophers who otherwise deserve nothing but praise for the thoroughness of their way of thinking have sought to explain this distinction as merely illusory and to reduce all faculties to the mere faculty of cognition.

Ordinarily, the faculty of cognition aims at truth, and the faculty of desire aims at action.

(GW VII 241 | KU 241) Thought, Maimon argues, is an absolutely free activity of the faculty of cognition, which is not determined a priori by natural laws, but rather according to the laws of the faculty of cognition itself.

According to Kant, this is the task of reflecting judgment, whose a priori principle is to regard nature as purposive or teleological, "but only as a regulative principle of the faculty of cognition" (5:197).

(A52/B56) For Maimon, Kant's cognitive dualism — which begins with distinct faculties of cognition — fails to explain how the various elements can come together in a way that makes experience possible.

The faculty of approval should be distinguished from the faculties of cognition and desire, since it does not aim at the same results they do.

But the occurrence of this comment in the context of Baumgarten's discussion of aesthetic truth (or of how truths can be presented in ways agreeable to the senses) makes clear that with this reference to "harmony" between the lower and upper faculties of cognition he is not quite introducing the idea of a free play between them.

Schelling's summons, and his insistence on the superiority of the aesthetic faculty to cognition or intellection, found a sympathetic reception among his German romantic contemporaries.

A growing body of evidence highlights how AI, combined with the faculties of human cognition, is considerably more effective and efficient at executing tasks than a human or a machine alone.