The basis of both composition and negation turns out to be the same state of affairs, i.e., something that is formulated in the mind, to which we can either assent or deny to be the case.
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.
At its best, the faith does not impose on us a dogma to recite or a doctrine to which we must give assent.
It is a testament to Bennett's extraordinary skill – his genius, even – that we assent to the proposition, which would in real life make a cat laugh, that the Queen could be capable of becoming a reader of fine discernment.
We have learned such sentiments like a script; that we have heard it again and again has not diminished the sternness with which we have given our assent.
All Avicennan treatises on logic are structured in accordance with this doctrine: a first section deals with definition, which conduces to conception, a second with proof, which conduces to assent.
Only now, they have rational impressions to which they can assent.
And this tendency took the opinion that nothing can be known to be among the impressions to which one should assent in this way.
Everything to which Germany has assented has been part of a bargain: peripheral countries get help, but only in exchange for reform.
And he asks her to marry him, to which Megan happily assents as Don places Anna's ring on her finger.
