cognizer

English

Etymology

cognize +‎ -er

Noun

cognizer (plural cognizers)

  1. One who, or that which, cognizes.
    • 2008 September 12, Hamid Vahid, “Experience and the Space of Reasons: The Problem of Non-Doxastic Justification”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, DOI:10.1007/s10670-008-9121-2:
      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’).
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