An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent. John Henry Newman

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       John Henry Newman

      An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent

      Published by Good Press, 2020

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      EAN 4064066101848

Table of Contents

       Part I. Assent And Apprehension.

       Chapter I. Modes Of Holding And Apprehending Propositions.

       § 1. Modes of Holding Propositions.

       § 2. Modes of apprehending Propositions.

       Chapter II. Assent Considered As Apprehensive.

       Chapter III. The Apprehension Of Propositions.

       Chapter IV. Notional And Real Assent.

       § 1. Notional Assents.

       § 2. Real Assents.

       § 3. Notional and Real Assents Contrasted.

       Chapter V. Apprehension And Assent In The Matter Of. Religion.

       § 1. Belief in One God.

       § 2. Belief in the Holy Trinity.

       § 3. Belief in Dogmatic Theology.

       Part II. Assent And Inference.

       Chapter VI. Assent Considered As Unconditional.

       § 1. Simple Assent.

       § 2. Complex Assent.

       Chapter VII. Certitude.

       § 1. Assent and Certitude Contrasted.

       § 2. Indefectibility of Certitude.

       Chapter VIII. Inference.

       § 1. Formal Inference.

       § 2. Informal Inference.

       § 3. Natural Inference.

       Chapter IX. The Illative Sense.

       § 1. The Sanction of the Illative Sense.

       § 2. The Nature of the Illative Sense.

       § 3. The Range of the Illative Sense.

       Chapter X. Inference And Assent In The Matter Of. Religion.

       § 1. Natural Religion.

       § 2. Revealed Religion.

       Note.

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      Dedication.

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      To

      Edward Bellasis,

      Serjeant At Law,

      In Remembrance

      Of A Long, Equable, Sunny Friendship;

      In Gratitude

      For Continual Kindnesses Shown To Me,

      For An Unwearied Zeal In My Behalf,

      For A Trust In Me Which Has Never Wavered,

      And A Prompt, Effectual Succour And Support

      In Times Of Special Trial,

      From His Affectionate

      J. H. N.

      February 21, 1870.

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Part I. Assent And Apprehension.

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Chapter I. Modes Of Holding And Apprehending Propositions.

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§ 1. Modes of Holding Propositions.

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      1. Propositions (consisting of a subject and predicate united by the copula) may take a categorical, conditional, or interrogative form.

      (1) An interrogative, when they ask a Question, (e.g. Does Free-trade benefit the poorer classes?) and imply the possibility of an affirmative or negative resolution of it.

      (2) A conditional, when they express a Conclusion (e.g. Free-trade therefore benefits the poorer classes), and both