cognizer

English

Etymology

cognize +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪzə(ɹ)

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:

     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’).