An Essay in aid of a Grammar of Assent
John Henry Newman

Contents
Background
 Dedication
 Title Page

Revised November, 2001—NR.

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Part 1. Assent and Apprehension
Page
1. Modes of holding and apprehending Propositions 3.
ァ 1. Modes of holding Propositions 3.
ァ 2. Modes of apprehending Propositions 9.
2. Assent considered as Apprehensive 13.
3. The Apprehension of Propositions 19.
4. Notional and Real Assent 36.
ァ 1. Notional Assents 42.
ァ 2. Real Assents 75.
ァ 3. Notional and Real Assents contrasted 89.
5. Apprehension and Assent in the matter of Religion 98.
ァ 1. Belief in one God 101.
ァ 2. Belief in the Holy Trinity 122.
ァ 3. Belief in Dogmatic Theology 142.

Part II. Assent and Inference
6. Assent considered as Unconditional 157.
ァ 1. Simple Assent 159.
ァ 2. Complex Assent 188.
7. Certitude 210.
ァ 1. Assent and Certitude contrasted 210.
ァ 2. Indefectibility of Certitude 221.
8. Inference 259.
ァ 1. Formal Inference 259.
ァ 2. Informal Inference 288.
ァ 3. Natural Inference 330.
9. The Illative Sense 343.
ァ 1. The Sanction of the Illative Sense 346.
ァ 2. The Nature of the Illative Sense 353.
ァ 3. The Range of the Illative Sense 360.
10. Inference and Assent in the matter of Religion 384.
ァ 1. Natural Religion 389.
ァ 2. Revealed Religion
file 1 409.
file 2 447.

Notes
1. On Hooker and Chillingworth 493.
2. On the alternative intellectually between Atheism and Catholicity 495.
3. On the punishment of the wicked having no termination 501.

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Background

Dublin Review, April 1870, W. G. Ward

Dublin Review, April 1871, W. G. Ward

Life of Cardinal Newman, chapter 28, Wilfrid Ward

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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,

AND A PROMPT, EFFECTUAL SUCCOUR AND SUPPORT

IN TIMES OF SPECIAL TRIAL,

FROM HIS AFFECTIONATE

J. H. N.

February 21, 1870.

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Title Page

AN ESSAY

IN AID OF

A GRAMMAR OF ASSENT

BY

JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN

Non in dialectic? complacuit Deo salvum facere populum suum
St. Ambrose

NEW IMPRESSION

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
NEW YORK AND BOMBAY

1903

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