It would seem the ultimate act of acceptance.
I got up suddenly and walked into the room where the cardinals were waiting, and [to] the table, on which was the act of acceptance.
Born in 1913 on what was then a French colony, Mr. Césaire spent his formative years in the 1930s studying in Paris, where, with the help of other prominent black intellectuals, he established the concept of négritude, the conscious act of acceptance and pride in one's own African background and a rejection of colonial racism and oppression.
For like others, he defines supposition as 'acceptio termini' (the act of acceptance of a term) of various kinds, and so is as much a property of the speaker as of a term.
It is, I believe, the ultimate act of acceptance.
Then the light faded, I got up suddenly and walked into the room where the cardinals were waiting and the table on which was the act of acceptance.
The act of acceptance was felt to be important [ 50].
The act of acceptance is considered valuable in that it removes the need for maladaptive avoidance strategies which can occur when experiences are considered unacceptable.
Rejection from other people will always reinforce a negative worldview, so an act of acceptance can make a difference.
Whereas the propositions that are the objects of scientia, or knowledge, compel belief by their self-evidence or their demonstrability from self-evident premises, the propositions accepted by faith do not thus compel assent but require a voluntary act of trusting acceptance.
