This act of assent is the result of some kind of illumination from the soul's cognitive powers (QLIII2S 1, 7).
The most obvious mechanism is the demonstrative syllogism, which leads us finally to Wodeham's conception of a science and the immediate object of this act of assent.
Science (or a scientific act of assent) is caused by the mediation of this evidence" (LS I:9, ll. 44 46).
Carneades had argued that this fails to account for the complexity of our cognitive life: many of our actions are not the product of distinct acts of assent, but rather unconscious, or habitual, like animal action; and we sometimes deliberately act without assent, for instance, when we follow unendorsed hypotheses or act in conditions of uncertainty (see Bett 1990).
Quine considers acts of assenting to sentences (or dissenting; but I shall mostly leave that as understood).
A further problem with describing as Thomist a model of faith simply as firm belief in theological propositions is that Aquinas takes as central an act of 'inner assent' (Summa Theologiae, 2a2ae, 2, 1 (O'Brien 1974, 59 65)).
As unforced belief, faith is "an act of the intellect assenting to the truth at the command of the will" (Summa theologiae, II/II, Q. 4, art. 5); and it is because this is a free and responsible act that faith is one of the virtues.
Therefore, parliament inserted a clause into the Act of Attainder, providing that assent granted by Commissioners "is and ever was and ever shall be, as good" as assent granted by the sovereign personally.
In article two of question one, he discusses whether a scientific act of knowing (the evident assent given to the conclusion of a syllogism) has as its immediate object "that which is signified by only one proposition, i.e., the conclusion" or "that which is signified by the conclusion and the premises joined together at the same time through a syllogism" (LS I:199, ll. 5 11).
I took all of the Commonwealth of Australia Numbered Acts and assigned them to a prime minister, political party, and parliament based on the date of assent of the act.
In a program note, Messiaen wrote that Amen has four basic meanings, ranging from God's own assent to the act of creating the universe, to human submission to divine will.
