But no one who wishes in any way to stand within historic Christianity could possibly assent to that reductionist assertion.
He introduced the concept of an utterance's "stimulus meaning" - the set of stimulations which would prompt a person to assent to that utterance.
I cannot assent to that view, if it be meant that the legislature may impair or abridge the rights of a free press and of free speech whenever it thinks that the public welfare requires that to be done.
As Dennett pointed out long ago (1978b), I can be said to know, or to be aware, that zebras in the wild don't wear overcoats, even though I have never actually considered the matter, because I am disposed to assent to that proposition in light of what I occurrently know.
Sam Stosur certainly would assent to that, and if Djokovic plays anything like she did in her opening match, it will be a resounding shot fired across the bows of Federer and Andy Murray, his primary rivals at Flushing Meadows.
The Modes are tailored to keep us from assenting to something that could be false.
The point is that no one reading Sextus' text in the light of the philosophical usage of the terms he uses would think that assenting to the impression that P meant anything other than believing that P. Specifically, no one would think that it meant acknowledging or judging that one has the impression that P.
Only the Stoic sage's assent to cognitive impressions clearly counts as knowledge for only a sage has the proper discipline always to avoid withdrawing assent, or assenting to things that one shouldn't.
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.
On the one hand, I'm often disappointed to see comedians assenting to the idea that their ethnicity or identity is their most interesting quality.
She is merely assenting to the claim that U is a genuine ground for doubt for p. Thus, neither is she holding contradictory beliefs nor is her practice somehow inconsistent with what she assents to.
