Sentence examples for intellectual assent from inspiring English sources
By the late 17th century, however, philosophers and scientists had started to use "belief" to mean an intellectual assent to a somewhat dubious proposition.
In the 13th century St. Thomas Aquinas defined faith as an intellectual assent to divine truth by the command of the will inspired by grace and the authority of God.
In his most elevated rhetorical passages, especially in "The Prelude," he often writes as though setting forth a metaphysical proposition that demands intellectual assent: "Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows / Like harmony in music; there is a dark / Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles / Discordant elements".
Throughout his discussion, Augustine indicates that certainty is not the issue; he regards his predicament as falling outside the scope of intellectual assent.
Faith is intellectual assent to revealed supernatural truths that are not evident in themselves or through demonstration from truths evident in themselves.
He "began to put more emphasis on the utter gratuity of grace and began to see fides [faith] less as intellectual assent and more as trust in God" (O'Malley, CWE 66:xliii; also xxvii).
Intellectually, I assent: let us adore God.
We see in such thinkers that genuine engagement with the teaching is not primarily intellectual understanding or simple assent, but a transformative encounter in which the dualism of the person's samsaric existence and Amida's wisdom-compassion is transcendent.
Three studies conducted in the United States assessed ethical and legal aspects of decisional capacity, as related to intellectual ability, understanding informed assent, and confidentiality for minors.
Among Roman Catholic writers, John Henry Newman's An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent (1870) offered a major intellectual justification of the act of faith during what he viewed as a revolutionary, seismic period in the world of ideas.
Belief, a mental attitude of acceptance or assent toward a proposition without the full intellectual knowledge required to guarantee its truth.
