“All cognitive concepts have a transitive meaning: they go beyond descriptive reference to particular facts” - Herbert Marcuse

Verbs are classified as transitive or intransitive:

Transitive - Expressing an action carried from the subject to the object; requiring a direct object to complete meaning.

Intransitive - A verb or verb construction that does not require or cannot take a direct object.

Transitive verbs require an object to complete their meaning. He read the book. The book is the object that was read.

Intransitive verbs don’t require an object. He walks the dog every day. Walks does not require an object.