Naturally, we need an argument why this faculty cannot be identified as belonging to the soul, and the usual NyÄya claim is that the soul is the agent of cognising, while the mind is an instrument for cognising, just as we must distinguish between the axe-man, who is the agent chopping the tree, and the axe, which is the instrument for chopping. ❋ Ganeri, Jonardon (2009)
Yet another is that Kant speaks of “cognising the moral law,” when he is well aware that no author before him has formulated this moral law as he now does. ❋ Williams, Garrath (2009)
Such a supposition is grandly sustained by the laws and operations of nature without, and the experience and intuitions of the mind within; and I believe this providence to be all-comprehensive, bounding, and cognising all things, past, present, and future, both small and great; claiming the ages for its measure, the universe for the field of its operations, and the Infinite as the source of power. ❋ Joseph Wild (N/A)
But if there are no means of knowing these particular effects, there are also no means of cognising potentiality. ❋ George Thibaut (1881)
To the objection that if being a cognising subject constituted the essential nature of the Self it would follow that as the ❋ George Thibaut (1881)
Nescience cannot be terminated by the simple act of cognising Brahman as the universal self. ❋ George Thibaut (1881)
-- Now to that which is eternally unchanging, non-active and isolated, the attributes of being a witness and an enjoying and cognising agent can in no way belong. ❋ George Thibaut (1881)
Every individual soul carries on the course of its practical existence by means of the activities of seeing, hearing, cognising; otherwise no practical existence at all would be possible. ❋ George Thibaut (1881)
-- Well, then, let us assume that the essential nature of Brahman itself is the cognising subject! ❋ George Thibaut (1881)
Even if the Pradhâna were inferred by some reasoning different from the arguments so far refuted by us, our objections would remain in force because, anyhow, the Pradhâna is devoid of the power of a cognising subject. ❋ George Thibaut (1881)
Here the expression, 'He within the sun whom the sun does not know,' clearly indicates that the Ruler within is distinct from that cognising individual soul whose body is the sun. ❋ George Thibaut (1881)
And that that self-luminous knowledge which you declare to be borne witness to by itself, really consists in the knowledge of particular objects of knowledge -- such knowledge abiding in particular cognising subjects -- this also has been proved previously. ❋ George Thibaut (1881)
For the sentient subject has perished, and the object of sensation has perished; and the cognising subject has perished, and the object cognised has perished. ❋ George Thibaut (1881)
-- That cognising subject is himself something fictitiously superimposed on Brahman! ❋ George Thibaut (1881)
But where the cognising persons are different (and this of course is eminently so in the case of different sâkhâs), the double statement of one and the same matter explains itself as subserving the cognition of those different persons, and hence does not imply difference of matter enjoined. ❋ George Thibaut (1881)
For the (energies of) seeing, hearing, noticing, cognising constitute the character of the individual soul, and that character is observed to exist in full perfection, even in the case of that individual soul which has not yet risen beyond the body. ❋ George Thibaut (1881)
And further on (II, 2, 7) there are other terms, 'all knowing,' 'all cognising,' which also specially belong to the highest Brahman only. ❋ George Thibaut (1881)
And should it be said that each stream of cognitions is one (whereby a kind of unity of the cognising subject is claimed to be established), yet this affords no sufficient basis for the ordinary notions and activities of life, since the stream really is nothing different from the constituent parts of the stream (all of which are momentary and hence discrete). ❋ George Thibaut (1881)
If therefore you hold that there is an erroneous idea of oneness due to the perception of similarity residing in different things perceived at different times, you necessarily must acknowledge oneness on the part of the cognising subject. ❋ George Thibaut (1881)
-- Who moreover should, according to you, be the cognising subject in a cognition which has for its object the negation of everything that is different from Brahman? ❋ George Thibaut (1881)
[Cognisize]; cognisized; cognisizes (v) : I wish I could [cognisize] this [hard on] To really be 3 in. Longer, but its [all in] my head. ❋ Longbackdorsea (2020)
