For him, faith in Jesus required not just a mental assent but also a this-worldly response to suffering.
Through various early Anglophone interpreters, most notably through P. F. Strawson and his "principle of significance," the image of Kant as a proto-positivist gained dominance, and the epistemic strictures of Transcendental Idealism came to be seen as barriers not just to religious assent but even to the meaningfulness of any propositions regarding the supersensible.
PARIS — There was a time when, almost like a mantra, British politicians of all stripes would offer enthusiastic assent to just about everything Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, might suggest.
And, thirdly, he argued that we ought to restrict our assent to just cognitive or kataleptic impressions, since it is contrary to reason to form (true or false) 'opinions' by assenting to inadequately warranted, non-cognitive impressions.
For all of these reasons, assent is not just a convenient fiction, but can cause harm.
Andrew M. Cuomo, the New York governor, didn't just assent to marriage equality.
The bill secured royal assent in May 1970, just before the fall of Wilson's government.
The facilitator specifically asked some of the women in Gabi and Zermou to talk, but only few of them did so by just assenting to what men had said.
Such a move wouldn't require congressional approval, just the assent of several agencies.
I am, therefore, constrained to withhold my assent to the judgment just announced, and am authorized to say that Mr. Justice FIELD and Mr. Justice BREWER concur in this dissent.
