Sentence examples for acts of assent from inspiring English sources

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).

This act of assent is the result of some kind of illumination from the soul's cognitive powers (QLIII2S 1, 7).

Science (or a scientific act of assent) is caused by the mediation of this evidence" (LS I:9, ll. 44 46).

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.

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)).

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.

Acts of uttering such sentences, or of assenting to them when they are uttered by others, are shared responses to stimulation.

It has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction beyond our comprehension, understanding, and unclarified by our laws; giving its assent to its acts of legislation pretended to be serving the common good of the American people when it only serves special interests at the expense of that common good.

(The Stoics defined responsible or voluntary action in terms of assent, since this was the mechanism through which our rationality acts on the world).

Bills, if assented to by the king, became acts of Parliament; eventually, under King Henry VI (reigned 1422 61; 1470–71), the assent of both the House of Lords a body now based largely on heredity and the House of Commons was also required.