Cognition

Function of the mind by which we have knowledge of anything. In a tripartite analysis of consciousne it is the intellectual aspect as distinguished from the emo were used for purposes of ornament before they were coined. Hero dot us says that the Lydians first coined money, and the coins of Sardes, 800 B.C., are thought to entitle them to the honor. The Chinese, however, a ert a much greater antiquity for their coins of copper and iron. "Coinage," said Jefferson, "is peculiarly an attribute of sovereignty." The interests of the people require that the right to coin money should be reserved to the government. The coins of empires and mon nitive act are the presentation of an object to the mind and the fixing of the attention upon it; following this come the higher proce es of perception, interpretation, recognition, etc. The presentative material may be internal facts, such as are involved in the inspection of one's own state of mind, or external matters of sense experience. See PSYCHOLOGY.