This avoids that objection because the academic skeptic is neither assenting to the proposition that her equipment is untrustworthy nor assenting to the claim that there is an argument which shows that her equipment is untrustworthy.
The Nobel committee, writes the New York Times Louis Uchitellee, was effectively assenting in the widespread current view that neoclassical economics "was too simplistic and ignored the unstated relationships and behaviours that develop among companies that are competitors but find ways to resolve common problems.
By assenting to this principle, Mr Clinton has probably made it harder for himself or his successor to pull out of the treaty, as either side may legally do, with six months' notice.No less controversial, in terms of America's domestic security debate, will be the assertion that "offensive" strategic weapons and defensive ones cannot be treated in isolation from one another.
Assenting to the latter, Rehoboam returned to the people with an answer that was to lead to the disintegration of the united monarchy that had lasted for only about a century under three kings: "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions".
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.
As a candidate for the Polish crown, he secured the support of the emperor Charles VI by assenting to the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, designed to preserve the integrity of the Habsburg inheritance, and that of the Russian empress Anna by supporting Russia's claim to Courland.
The church, they held, was to be "the believer's church," made up of assenting and consenting people who chose to accept God's Covenant.
The arguments might not sound so good to someone with a better mind; but my mental trappings are as they are, and I am always on the brink of assenting — it is almost a subconscious assent.
Understandably, the activists who had risked their reputations on Dreyfus's vindication argued against assenting to an amnesty, and for continuing to appeal the case, despite the risk of further imprisonment.
In itself, it does not mean that we are capable of attaining knowledge, for there might not be any impressions that one can be confident in assenting to.
