An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman
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An Essay
In Aid Of
A Grammar Of Assent.
by
John Henry Newman,
Of the Oratory.
Non in dialectica 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 Of Religion. ? 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. Chapter VIII. Inference. ? 1. Formal Inference. ? 2. Informal Inference. ? 3. Natural Inference. Chapter IX. The Illative Sense. ? 1. The Sanction of the Illative Sense. ? 2. The Nature of the Illative Sense. ? 3. The Range of the Illative Sense. Chapter X. Inference And Assent In The Matter Of Religion. ? 1. Natural Religion. ? 2. Revealed Religion. Note. Footnotes
DEDICATION.
To
Edward Bellasis,
Serjeant At Law,
In Remembrance
Of A Long, Equable, Sunny Friendship;
In Gratitude
For Continual Kindnesses Shown To Me,
For An Unwearied Zeal In My Behalf,
For A Trust In Me Which Has Never Wavered,
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman
- 2: As there are three ways of enunciating
- 3: Why should their several enunciations be distinct
- 4: An assent to a proposition at variance with the thesis
- 5: Dum Capitolium scandet cum tacita Virgine Pontifex
- 6: Unless we apprehend the predicate
- 7: That lucern is medicago sativa
- 8: It is real in the experimentalist
- 9: Such are the two modes of apprehension
- 10: Though as predicates they would be accounted common nouns
- 11: We are able by an inventive faculty
- 12: Even before we set about apprehending
- 13: I should say he is made the logarithm of his true self
- 14: As notions come of abstractions
- 15: The assent of a Stoic to the Justum et tenacem c
- 16: Inferences are employed on notions
- 17: When he seems to assent to the dicta of his master
- 18: A statement uniting incompatible notions
- 19: Its calculus is commonly used to investigate
- 20: In which consists its inconceivableness
- 21: We believe in the infinitude of the Divine Attributes
- 22: But religion may be made a subject of notional assent also
- 23: That class of assents which I have called Credence
- 24: Credence is an implicit assent to its truth
- 25: This instinct is directed towards individual phenomena
- 26: To which we give a real assent
- 27: Another of these presumptions is the belief in causation
- 28: As to causation in the second sense viz
- 29: Should all particles have the same
- 30: All this is the subject of notional assent
- 31: But as intellectually recognizing their truth
- 32: In favour of the inviolability of the laws of nature
- 33: Of real apprehension and assent
- 34: Coincidences which we have no means of determining
- 35: With their apprehensions and assents
- 36: Notional and Real Assents Contrasted
- 37: Now Sir Robert Peel thinks better of natural history
- 38: Unless we take refuge in the intolerable paradox
- 39: The religious and the theological
- 40: This being what Theists mean when they speak of God
- 41: We take up a passage of Chrysostom or a passage of Jerome
- 42: The feeling of conscience being
- 43: Let us then thus consider conscience
- 44: And thus the phenomena of Conscience
- 45: Is especially congenial to the mind
- 46: The natural supplements of transgression
- 47: Deals with notional apprehension
- 48: Which embodies a dogma for the theologian
- 49: While our moral sensibilities are fresh
- 50: As is intimated by Unus Increatus
- 51: Or has an inscrutable mysteriousness
- 52: While we can image the separate propositions
- 53: At a length four times that of the Athanasian Creed
- 54: Whereas these nine propositions contain the Mystery
- 55: The Paraclete shall receive of Mine
- 56: Theology has to do with what is notional
- 57: Because neither necessary nor explicable
- 58: Or Siquis dixerit justificatum peccare
- 59: And also part or not part of the revealed credenda
- 60: Believes implicite in His eternity
- 61: Of the whole depositum of faith
- 62: Yet every one unconditionally accepts
- 63: Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent
- 64: And calls them irrational and immoral
- 65: Which became the warrant of our assent
- 66: Assent then is not the same as inference
- 67: Assent certainly is always unconditional
- 68: His assents are really only inferences
- 69: There is no medium between assenting and not assenting
- 70: Unless man's nature is irrational
- 71: Or a presumptive and prima facie assent
- 72: To assent to another's innocence
- 73: Which the object of the assent elicits
- 74: And assents to his previous assenting
- 75: Who attempt to unite incompatibilities
- 76: Have no direct force to weaken assent
- 77: Will tell us what is not certitude
- 78: Which does not fulfil the conditions of certitude
- 79: Thus I may believe in the liquefaction of St
- 80: Which is incompatible with certitude
- 81: Which I attribute to Certitude
- 82: For Certitude is only one of its forms
- 83: Assent and Certitude Contrasted
- 84: Which is the characteristic of certitude
- 85: And in such instances of certitude
- 86: May beset and obstruct the intellect
- 87: Indefectibility almost enters into its very idea
- 88: To confuse infallibility with certitude
- 89: 11 Now what is an infallible means
- 90: Without which certitude is not
- 91: Am I not to indulge my second certitude
- 92: As the hammer of a clock may tell untruly
- 93: Such are the mistakes about certitude among educated men
- 94: Which is certitude under another name
- 95: Indefectible certitude in primary truths
- 96: And change of religious certitudes
- 97: That in these three cases old certitudes were lost
- 98: Without injury to existing certitudes
- 99: Without any one certitude lost
- 100: Even though it implied genuine certitude
- 101: Which claims to be indefectible also
- 102: So much on the indefectibility of certitude
- 103: This thought leads us to a further view of ratiocination
- 104: Between premisses and conclusions
- 105: Being the perfection of the syllogistic method
- 106: But merely assumes its premisses
- 107: Substituted for the corrupt reading of 1623
- 108: What is the character of his emendations
- 109: Logical reasoning in concrete matters is forced to admit
- 110: Or coincides with the auto anthropos
- 111: Elias was the auto anthropos or abstract man
- 112: This place will have the cholera
- 113: And the uses of this logical inference are manifold
- 114: Before the syllogism reaches him
- 115: That such a process of reasoning is more or less implicit
- 116: When the premisses are granted
- 117: Hardouin allows that the Georgics
- 118: Which is by itself no logical proof
- 119: Not by a formal juxta position of propositions
- 120: For Greece is audaciously defying Turkey
- 121: Whether these particular miracles
- 122: Humility of its true disciples
- 123: 15 Elsewhere he says of Montaigne
- 124: The idea of eternity and omnipresence
- 125: But the true healthy action of our ratiocinative powers
- 126: Independent probabilities in cumulation
- 127: For a proof is the limit of converging probabilities
- 128: And to balk us with an irrational
- 129: And this satisfactory certitude
- 130: And a personal certitude upon that judgment
- 131: But without conscious antecedents
- 132: Apparently without any ratiocinative media
- 133: Between Ratiocination and Memory
- 134: What I have been saying of Ratiocination
- 135: Or right judgment in ratiocination
- 136: For as certitude is of the mind
- 137: We speculate on them at our leisure
- 138: Of which inference and assent are the immediate instruments
- 139: And He can overrule them for us
- 140: Phronesis is the regulating principle of every one of them
- 141: To consider this phronesis as a general faculty
- 142: In no class of concrete reasonings
- 143: All reasoning being from premisses
- 144: With whom prescription is nothing
- 145: It is the tacit understandings which Mr
- 146: Colonel Mure also speaks of Mr
- 147: Sciences are only so many distinct aspects of nature
- 148: But that our separate idiosyncrasies happen to concur
- 149: Inevitably translates itself into intellectual assumptions
- 150: 3 Another conflict of first principles or assumptions
- 151: Among these are antecedent reasons
- 152: A number of antecedent probabilities
- 153: Not as true on intrinsic grounds
- 154: 34 Conscience is a personal guide
- 155: Of these also Lucretius gives us a specimen
- 156: That amendment is no reparation
- 157: Not only is the Creator far off
- 158: Relieving the aspect of Natural Religion
- 159: Prayer is essential to religion
- 160: As well as the notion of divine interpositions
- 161: Vicarious punishments may be fit
- 162: In waiting till such logical demonstration is ours
- 163: It would appear that a boy may be a mathematician
- 164: All men are not distressed at these offences alike
- 165: Their objects of worship were immoral as well as false
- 166: Deeds of merciful correction or of retribution
- 167: A revelation is not improbable
- 168: Of speaking about conscientiousness in writing
- 169: Of a cumulation of coincidences
- 170: Are not the outcome of such intervention
- 171: It was a people founded and set up in Theism
- 172: And with the froward Thou shalt be froward
- 173: Or rather to be Judaism itself
- 174: Both for Judaism and Christianity
- 175: Here it is that Mahometanism fails
- 176: An aggressive and militant body
- 177: That even when their Messiah came
- 178: Though our Lord claims to be the Messiah
- 179: In the words of the Evangelists
- 180: Blessed are ye when they revile you
- 181: But by the novel expedient of sanctity and suffering
- 182: By which Gibbon means party spirit
- 183: Paley solves the difficulty as far as it is a fact
- 184: In that Deliverer who had come and gone
- 185: This Image it is which both creates faith
- 186: As to the worldly position and character of His disciples
- 187: We have the account of it in Tacitus
- 188: Yet in dishonour they are glorified
- 189: Persuading Greeks and Barbarians alike
- 190: Feared her escape from prison by magical incantations
- 191: And a contemporary of Ignatius
- 192: Refreshed with the joy of martyrdom
- 193: She was scourged and burned with torches
- 194: And necessarily forestalling it
- 195: So low is heroic Alexander fallen
- 196: Of the arguments adducible for Christianity
- 197: Who called my attention to a passage of Hooker Eccles
- 198: Etiam geometrice aut metaphysice certa
- 199: 24 Phillipps' Law of Evidence
- 200: Eo ipso eadem infallibili certitudine intelliget
- 201: Et ipse erit expectatio gentium