An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent

Name: An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent
Author: John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman

Newman's philosophical work of 1870 on how the mind comes to believe. Part I distinguishes notional from real assent, and apprehension from inference. Part II studies assent and certitude, and in the Illative Sense gives the faculty by which we judge concrete matters; the last chapters apply it to the evidences of natural and revealed religion.

Source: 11 chapters: Newman Reader page numbers, navigation and its editorial remarks are dropped; Newman's own notes are kept as footnotes. Chapters 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 each join the Newman Reader's pages for their sections. The two Dublin Review notices of the book (by others) are left out. Raw page text in sources/en-US-originals/.