cognizer

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cognizer

(kɒɡˈnaɪzə) or

cogniser

n
a being that is able to cognize
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Finally, when you have eliminated all extraneous mental activity and your mind is in a cleared state, you should continue the meditation in a relaxed and natural manner, concentrating on the mind as a clear cogniser, without letting your memory slacken.
The element satisfying the valency of the infinitive that would appear as its finite subject is not distinct from the cogniser or agent of the main verb.
Stative cognitives introduce a predication that is at least provisionally true for the "cogniser"; and this is marked by a periphrastic infinitive that is preferably stative itself, particularly a be construction, including progressives:
Non-stative cognitives are associated with a subordinate predication that comes to be true for the cogniser; and they typically do not take non-finite complements:
On the one hand, High NFC individuals (cognisers) are characterised by their tendency to seek, acquire, think about, and reflect back on information to make sense of stimuli and events.