Definition of "cognitum" []

• An object of cognition. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "God as the First Object of our Knowledge (primum cognitum)"
• "The apparent contrast between these two theories is lessened when we recognize that for Henry God is the primum cognitum of our intellect, not because of the evidence, but because of the absolute indeterminacy of our concept of God."
• "In describing the role of divine illumination in the cognitive process of the human intellect (see above, §2), Henry is always careful to specify that God functions only as ratio cognoscendi and not as obiectum cognitum."