An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent

Published by Good Press, 2020

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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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