An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent

A Classic Includes Active Table Of Contents Includes Religious Illustrations. No One Is Likely To Deny That A Question Is Distinct Both From A Conclusion And From An Assertion; And An Assertion Will Be Found To Be Equally Distinct From A Conclusion. For If We Rest Our Affirmation On Arguments This Shows That We Are Not Asserting; And When We Assert We Do Not Argue. An Assertion Is As Distinct From A Conclusion As A Word Of Command Is From A Persuasion Or Recommendation. Command And Assertion As Such Both Of Them In Their Different Ways Dispense With Discard Ignore Antecedents Of Any Kind Though Antecedents May Have Been A Sine Qu Non Condition Of Their Being Elicited. They Both Carry With Them The Pretension Of Being Personal Acts.. Aeterna Press