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Page 115
... assent itself , not its preliminaries , and I have specified three directions , which among others the assent may take , viz . assent immediately to a proposition , assent to its truth , and assent both to its truth and to the ground of ...
... assent itself , not its preliminaries , and I have specified three directions , which among others the assent may take , viz . assent immediately to a proposition , assent to its truth , and assent both to its truth and to the ground of ...
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... assent , not only to a given proposition , but to the claim of that proposition on our assent as true ; it is an assent to an assent , or what is commonly called a con- viction . . . . Let the proposition to which the assent is given be ...
... assent , not only to a given proposition , but to the claim of that proposition on our assent as true ; it is an assent to an assent , or what is commonly called a con- viction . . . . Let the proposition to which the assent is given be ...
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... assent is really such , and when not , or not a deeply rooted assent . Men may assent lightly , or from mere prejudice , or without understanding what it is to which they assent . They may be genuine believers in Revelation up to the ...
... assent is really such , and when not , or not a deeply rooted assent . Men may assent lightly , or from mere prejudice , or without understanding what it is to which they assent . They may be genuine believers in Revelation up to the ...
Contents
Euthyphro Plato | 3 |
Two Meditations René Descartes | 18 |
Democracy | 23 |
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