(also called Estimative Power and Estimative Faculty).— The internal sense by which animals judge what they perceive by their external senses to be, for example, beneficial or harmful.  This power, along with the sense appetition that it serves, is the foundation of animal instinct and learning.  In human beings it is called the “cogitative sense.”  This power plays an important role in the active formation of images or “phantasms” used in all cognition, although its role is very pronounced in practical knowledge.  Cognitions formed by the estimative / cogitative sense are stored in the sense memory.