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 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, And A Prompt, Effectual Succour And Support In Times Of Special Trial, From His Affectionate J. H. N. _February 21, 1870._ PART I. ASSENT AND APPREHENSION. Chapter I. Modes Of Holding And Apprehending Propositions. § 1. Modes of Holding Propositions. 1. Propositions (consisting of a subject and predicate united by the copula) may take a categorical, conditional, or interrogative form. (1) An interrogative, when they ask a Question, (e. g. Does Free-trade benefit the poorer classes?) and imply the possibility of an affirmative or negative resolution of it. (2) A conditional, when they express a Conclusion (e. g. Free-trade therefore benefits the poorer classes), and both imply, and imply their dependence on, other propositions.