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cogniser

cogniser is the alternative form of cognizer.

Meaning of cognizer

Noun

cognizer (plural cognizers)

  1. One who, or that which, cognizes.
    • So although McDowell takes experiences themselves to justify perceptual beliefs, this task always requires the cognizer to form beliefs or judgments about how the world appears to him (henceforth, ‘appearance beliefs’).2008 September 12, Hamid Vahid, “Experience and the Space of Reasons: The Problem of Non-Doxastic Justification”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI

Forms of cogniser

pluralcognisers

Origin of cogniser

From cognise + -er.

Words that rhyme with cogniser

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Questions about cogniser

What is cogniser the alternative form of?
Cogniser is the alternative form of cognizer.

Words near cogniser in the dictionary

  1. cogniscient
  2. cognise
  3. cognised
  4. cognisee
  5. cognisees
  6. cogniser
  7. cognisers
  8. cognises
  9. cognising
  10. cognisings
  11. cognisor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cogniser (page history and authors); cognizer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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