cognoscibility

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Noun[edit]

cognoscibility (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being cognoscible.
    • 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: [] Richard Royston, [], →OCLC:
      As the sun gives to things not only their visibility , but also their generation ; so does that highest Good , not only cause the cognoscibility of things , but also their very essences and beings

References[edit]

cognoscibility”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.