a. (and sb.) [ad. L. cōgitābil-is thinkable, f. cōgitāre (see below).]
A. adj. That can be thought or conceived; thinkable, conceivable.
a. 1688. Cudworth, Immut. Mor., IV. iv. (R.). A time when there was no intelligible nature of a triangle, nor any such thing cogitable at all.
1824. Coleridge, Aids Refl. (1848), I. 142. Convincing the mind that a doctrine is cogitable, that the soul can present the idea to itself.
1850. Grote, Greece, II. lxvii. (1869), VIII. 143. Something not perceivable by sense, but only cogitable or conceivable by reason.
B. sb. Anything thinkable or conceivable.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. v. 857. Yet are not these sensibles … the only things and cogitables.
1694. R. Burthogge, Reason, 79. Cogitables, or Things that have being only in the Faculties that apprehend them.
