‖ cogitatum Philos.
(kɒdʒɪˈteɪtəm)
[a. L. cōgitātum, neut. pa. pple. of cōgitāre to think: see cogitate v.]
That which is thought; the actual processes of thought, as opposed to the ideal thought-processes.
| 1878 W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 57 Every law of Mind must be either a law of the cogitatum or a law of the cogitandum. 1890 ― Princ. Psychol. I. xiv. 552 The laws of our actual thinking, of the cogitatum, must account alike for the bad and the good materials on which the arbiter has to decide. |