Literary notes about Cognition (AI summary)
In literature, "cognition" is portrayed as the multifaceted process through which the mind grasps, organizes, and evaluates reality. It is described as forming the very basis of judgment and creativity—where perception and reasoning interconnect to give rise to art and scientific inquiry [1][2]. At times, cognition is presented as a dual phenomenon: one that is empirically grounded in sensations and experiences [3][4] and another that operates a priori through pure intuition and rational principles [5][6]. Some works delve into how it underpins both the abstract ordering of reality, as seen in mathematical or philosophical terms [7][8], and the more elusive aspects of moral attitude and faith [9][10]. Overall, cognition is conceptualized as the vital, underlying faculty that structures our engagement with the world.
- Where the logician draws the line, where the premises stop which are the result of cognition—where judgment begins, there Art begins.
— from On War by Carl von Clausewitz - The aims set before us are not arbitrarily proposed, but are imposed upon us by the nature of cognition itself.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - Experience is an empirical cognition; that is to say, a cognition which determines an object by means of perceptions.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - our cognition which is called cognition a posteriori, that is, empirical intuition.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - By reason I understand here the whole higher faculty of cognition, the rational being placed in contradistinction to the empirical.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - The former alone can we cognize a priori, that is, antecedent to all actual perception; and for this reason such cognition is called pure intuition.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - Philosophical cognition, accordingly, regards the particular only in the general; mathematical the general in the particular, nay, in the individual.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - We must therefore hold the principle of contradiction to be the universal and fully sufficient Principle of all analytical cognition.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - Feelings are the germ and starting point of cognition, thoughts the developed tree.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - How can we exclude from the cognition of a truth a faith which is involved in the creation of the truth?
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
