The cogito initially establishes merely that we cannot but assent to our existence; the stronger, metaphysical result is established only upon demonstrating the veracity of clear and distinct perception.
The implication is that cogito, like 2+3=5, is something to which we cannot but assent while attending clearly and distinctly, but which we can later doubt in moments of epistemic pessimism, when no longer attending clearly and distinctly.
Insofar as the meditator assents, in the case of these judgments, he does so not because of an understanding of clear and distinct perceptions as being guaranteed true, but because the mind cannot but assent to them while attending clearly and distinctly.
While clearly and distinctly attending to a proposition, the mind cannot but assent: "my nature is such that so long as I perceive something very clearly and distinctly I cannot but believe it to be true" (Med. 5, AT 7 69; cf. 3 64, 7 36, 7 65, 8a:9).
Dyke's succession is not guaranteed, it has to be passed this summer by the FA Council and its assent cannot be relied upon.
This type of knowledge amounts to necessary, analytic truths, in his view: once one knows the terms that enter into such a proposition, and once those terms are combined into the proposition, one cannot help but assent.
A comprehensive proposal regarding acquisition of assent cannot exclude the abovementioned situations and institutional problems, and needs further discussion.
"I cannot possibly give my assent," the senator wrote to Mr. Salazar.
Avicenna defines certitude in terms of second-order belief: one is certain when one knows that what one has assented to cannot be otherwise (Black 2013b: 12013b
The charter cannot be changed without the assent of Parliament.
