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agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly)
accession to such demands would set a dangerous precedent
assenting to the Congressional determination
How To Use assenting In A Sentence
- assenting to the Congressional determination
- S's believing or assenting to P is based on his justifying propositional reason Q.= df S's believing or assenting to P is causally sustained in a nondeviant manner by his believing or assenting to Q. and by his associating P and Q. Moser limits this account of the basing relation to instances of inferential knowledge, unlike the more general characterization of the basing relation given above. The Epistemic Basing Relation
- His acceptance of them as hypotheses does not require assenting to them.
- -- While captiousness of manner, and the habit of disputing and contradicting every thing said, is chilling and repulsive, the opposite habit of assenting to, and sympathizing with, every statement made, or emotion expressed, is almost equally disagreeable. Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
- They declared themselves incapable of assenting to any changes touching the Church without the authorization of the Assembly of the Clergy.
- n. - removal, especially crime of removing property. assentaneous adj. - acquiescent. adj. willing to assent. assentator, n. flatterer; one assenting insincerely or conniving. assentatory, v. - to state positively, emphatically Xml's Blinklist.com
- He hesitates a moment before, with a small bow, assenting. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
- The constable and I could not avoid breaking into a kind of assenting laugh, and Rupert, who had family eloquence, was encouraged to go on with a reiterated gesture: The Club of Queer Trades
- n. - removal, especially crime of removing property. assentaneous adj. - acquiescent. adj. willing to assent. assentator, n. flatterer; one assenting insincerely or conniving. assentatory, v. - to state positively, emphatically Xml's Blinklist.com
- Belief can be described as assenting to certain doctrines -- infallible scripture, resurrection, virgin birth etc. Jason Derr: Can We Have Religion Without Religion and God Without God?