Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent (commonly abbreviated to the last three words) is John Henry Newman's seminal book on the philosophy of faith. Completed...
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Illative sense (section Origin of the term)
coined by John Henry Newman (1801–1890) in his Grammar of Assent. For him it is the unconscious process of the mind, by which probabilities converge into...
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John Henry Newman (redirect from The Idea of a University)
autobiography Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864), the Grammar of Assent (1870), and the poem The Dream of Gerontius (1865), which was set to music in 1900...
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Thomas Bayes (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
statistics Development of doctrine Grammar of Assent Judea Pearl Probabiliorism Theory-theory Bayes's tombstone says he died at 59 years of age on 7 April 1761...
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Jean Hardouin (category Proponents of alternative chronologies)
the similarity of his methods to Hardouin's. St John Henry Newman argued in his Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent that "the cumulation of probabilities...
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Doctor of the Church (Latin: doctor "teacher"), also referred to as Doctor of the Universal Church (Latin: Doctor Ecclesiae Universalis), is a title given...
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Eastern Orthodoxy may allow a form of doctrinal development, albeit more limited than Western forms of it. Grammar of Assent Probabiliorism Progressive revelation...
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Joanna Southcott (category Founders of new religious movements)
how a mind comes to certitude in his 1870 work An Essay In Aid of a Grammar of Assent. Author G. K. Chesterton refers to Southcott in his 1908 book Orthodoxy...
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Neumann (Hungary, US, 1903–1957) John Henry Newman (1801–1890) (see Grammar of Assent) Jean Nicod (France, 1893–1924) Pyotr Novikov (Russia/Soviet Union...
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Theodor Haecker (category People from the Grand Duchy of Baden)
heard of Haecker and even fewer had heard of Kierkegaard. After that he translated Newman's Grammar of Assent and became a Roman Catholic convert in April...
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Haberdashers' Adams (redirect from Adams grammar)
Haberdashers' Adams Grammar School is a selective state grammar school for high-achieving boys and girls aged 11–18 with boarding for boys, located in...
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Personalism (category Articles with Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy links)
notes Newman's personal approach to faith, as outlined in Grammar of Assent as a main source of Newman's personalism. Martin Luther King Jr. was greatly...
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Conscience (redirect from Pang of conscience)
essay in aid of a grammar of assent. Saint Mary's College of California. London : Longmans, Green. "Newman Reader - Letter to the Duke of Norfolk - Section...
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Catholic probabilism (section History of probabilism)
probability Development of doctrine Grammar of Assent Normative principle of worship Franklin, James (2001). The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and...
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theory of the Illative Sense as expounded in that famous prelate's "Grammar of Assent." Since then Mr. Haultain has contributed to the Nineteenth Century...
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inspiration for writing the Grammar of Assent came from his correspondence with William Froude. Froude, a friend of Newman's, was a scientist and an agnostic...
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of Assent and the Apologia. Walter Scott, The Fortunes of Nigel, ed. Frank Jordan (Edinburgh, 2004), 409–11. Ibid., 520–26. For a description of the...
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Brian Moore (novelist) (category British Army personnel of World War II)
Matter of Faith: The Fiction of Brian Moore, London and Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, ISBN 978-0313298714, 1996 Whitehouse, J. C. "Grammars of Assent and...
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Léon Ollé-Laprune (category Members of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques)
the part of the will and the heart in the phenomenon of belief. This work resembles in many respects John Henry Newman's Grammar of Assent. In his "Essai...
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Wilson's School (redirect from Wilson's Grammar School)
named after him. At the time, the establishment of a grammar school in England required the assent of the crown. This was obtained after the first school...
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philosophical work Grammar of Assent, and the poem The Dream of Gerontius, later set to music by Edward Elgar. Under Newman the Oratory became the focus of a literary...
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January 1873. Newman, who had dedicated his 1870 "Grammar of Assent" to Bellasis, described him as "one of the best men I ever knew." Matthew, H. C. G. (2006)...
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Sevenoaks School (redirect from Sevenoaks Grammar School)
the International Baccalaureate. Founded as a grammar school by William Sevenoke in 1432 as a part of his last will and testament, the school was intended...
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Foyle College (category Grammar schools in Derry (city))
Foyle College is a co-educational non-denominational voluntary grammar school in Derry, Northern Ireland. The school's legal name is Foyle and Londonderry...
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Ilkley Grammar School (IGS) is a co-educational, state comprehensive secondary school in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, England, that specialises in humanities...
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Thomas Morton Harper (category Alumni of the Queen's College, Oxford)
on Papal Infallibility". He also wrote a series of articles on John Henry Newman's Grammar of Assent, shortly after its appearance, though he did not...
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construction of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, with half to be paid to Albert for services. Multiple acts of the English parliament are given royal assent by King...
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American English) denoting approval, acceptance, agreement, assent, acknowledgment, or a sign of indifference. OK is frequently used as a loanword in other...
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Schools Foundation, which benefits St Olave's Grammar School and St Saviour's and St Olave's Church of England School which are beneficiaries but wholly...
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