Sentence examples for refrain from assenting from inspiring English sources

Alternatively, one may refrain from assenting to either or ¬ 5.

Provided we refrain from assenting to what is not clearly and distinctly perceived, our judgments are guaranteed to be true.

Elsewhere he argues that human freedom requires a self-determining will that could freely assent or refrain from assenting to the mind's judgments; this is a freedom of choosing and not a freedom of acting, such that a prisoner in chains "who chooses or endeavors to move out of his place is therein as much a free agent as he that actually moves out of his place" (D 75, W 2.566).

So Arcesilaus enlarges on his account in the second response: there is space for rationality and responsibility on this view, in the production of the impressions or thoughts motivating us when we act — we can act in accordance with what strikes us as the reasonable thing to do upon reflection, but still refrain from assent, i.e., refrain from forming the belief that this is the right thing to do.

Iraqi Shiites refrain from retaliating.

He planned to refrain from the latter.

He may refrain from provocations in Georgia.

First, refrain from hype.

If not, refrain from posting.

To refrain from lecturing.

Please refrain from swearing.