An Essay
In Aid Of
A Grammar Of Assent.

by

John Henry Newman,

Of the Oratory.

Non in dialecticà complacuit Deo salvum facere populum suum.

St. Ambrose.

London:

Burns, Oates, & Co.

17 & 18, Portman Street, and 63, Paternoster Row.

1874

Contents

• Dedication.
• Part I. Assent And Apprehension.
• Chapter I. Modes Of Holding And Apprehending Propositions.
• § 1. Modes of Holding Propositions.
• § 2. Modes of apprehending Propositions.
• Chapter II. Assent Considered As Apprehensive.
• Chapter III. The Apprehension Of Propositions.
• Chapter IV. Notional And Real Assent.
• § 1. Notional Assents.
• § 2. Real Assents.
• § 3. Notional and Real Assents Contrasted.
• Chapter V. Apprehension And Assent In The Matter OfReligion.
• § 1. Belief in One God.
• § 2. Belief in the Holy Trinity.
• § 3. Belief in Dogmatic Theology.
• Part II. Assent And Inference.
• Chapter VI. Assent Considered As Unconditional.
• § 1. Simple Assent.
• § 2. Complex Assent.
• Chapter VII. Certitude.
• § 1. Assent and Certitude Contrasted.
• § 2. Indefectibility of Certitude.
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