Sentence examples for object of assent from inspiring English sources
Against Ockham's nominalistic account, under which the object of assent is a complex token mental sentence, Adam Wodeham, for example, maintained that the object of assent is not any sort of mental entity, nor even a thing at all, properly speaking, nor of course a nothing but rather a being the case (see Wood 2003, and Nuchelmans 1996, IV for further discussion of Wodeham and his contemporaries).
The most obvious mechanism is the demonstrative syllogism, which leads us finally to Wodeham's conception of a science and the immediate object of this act of assent.
But on closer inspection, Sextus does describe the object of this second kind of assent in epistemological or psychological terms: the forbidden kind of dogma involves assenting to 'unclear objects of investigation in the sciences'.
The silent circle of assent.
There was a general murmur of assent.
Murphy made another small noise of assent.
There was a murmur of assent.
There was a soft murmur of assent.
The man made a noise of assent.
