cognizer

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English

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Etymology

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From cognize +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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’).