There are also stupefying numbers for the proportion of the British population who think, or who at least will assent to the proposition, that the Earth is around 10,000 years old.
On other occasions, he maintained that the wise person will assent to what is probable and so form opinions, but with the proviso that he may be wrong (Acad. 2.59, 67, 78, 112).
According to the second, the wise person will assent to what is probable and so form opinions, but provisionally and on the understanding that he may be wrong (Acad. 2.59, 67, 78, 112).
As children and adolescents may have reduced autonomy, they will assent.
Children lacking one or more of the requisite skills for competence to consent will assent.
If I have no reason to be suspicious I will be disposed to assent to "Rabbit?"; if I know about the deception, however, I will not be.
With the account of perceptual similarity in place, we can say what it is for a sentence to be observational for me: if I am disposed to assent to it on one occasion on which I have a certain neural intake, then I will also be disposed to assent to it on any other occasion on which I have neural intake which is (sufficiently) perceptually similar.
But an angry (and veto-wielding) Russia insists it will not assent to the Ahtisaari plan if Belgrade does not.
Reason 'obliges,' rather than causally compels, my will to assent.
For these reasons, the Pyrrhonian skeptic Sextus Empiricus argues that the Stoic sage will never assent to any impression.
