Definition of "cogitative" []

• Of or relating to cogitation. (adjective)
• Inclined to or capable of cogitation. (adjective)

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• "In the first place, the sensory information collected by the single senses is distinguished, synthesized, and collated by the higher sensory faculties of the common sense [sensus communis] and the so-called cogitative power [vis cogitativa], to be stored in sensory memory as phantasms, the sensory representations of singulars in their singularity."
• "Which, if you please, we will hereafter call cogitative and incogitative beings; which to our present purpose, if for nothing else, are perhaps better terms than material and immaterial."
• "Something called cogitative behavioral interventions that have been show to be quite effective."