‖ cogitandum Philos.
(kɒdʒɪˈtændəm)
[f. cogitate v. + -andum, as if from L. *cōgitandum, neut. gerundive of cōgitāre to think.]
That which should be thought; the ideal or correct processes of thought, as opposed to the actual processes.
| a 1866 J. Grote Moral Ideals (1876) 60 The two high intellectual ideals..are..the cogitandum and the contemplation of real being. 1878 [see cogitatum]. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. xiv. 552 The laws of the arbiter, of the cogitandum, of what we ought to think. |