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 1     Int,      II|   subjects. To withhold absolute assent from all doctrines, while
 2     Int,      II|         while giving a qualified assent to those which seemed most
 3     Int,      IV|        the dogmatists gave their assent to the truth of phenomena.
 4     Int,      IV|          reasons for refusing to assent to the truth of each class270.
 5     Not,       1|        truth. Rashness in giving assent to phenomena, and all other
 6     Not,       1|    Stoics sometimes speak of the assent of the mind as involuntary,
 7     Not,       1|     καταληπτικη φαντασια compels assent (see II. 38). This is, however,
 8     Not,       1|         the unhealthy may refuse assent.~§41. Visis non omnibus:
 9     Not,       2|        sensation, or allow it to assent to phenomena (37). Mind,
10     Not,       2|    virtue itself, require a firm assent to be given to some phenomena,
11     Not,       2|     therefore who does away with assent does away with all action
12     Not,       2|  sensation from without, not the assent given to it, that is involuntary (
13     Not,       2|         The refusal of people to assent to the innate clearness
14     Not,       2|    phantom sensations do command assent. Why should they not admit
15     Not,       2|          admit that they command assent when they so closely resemble
16     Not,       2|         we require before giving assent. When we have wakened from
17     Not,       2|         in madness withholds his assent." This proves nothing, for
18     Not,       2|         i.e. even that qualified assent which the Academics gave
19     Not,       2|         qualified or unqualified assent. Cf. n. on 104. Id est peccaturum: "
20     Not,       2|        qualified and unqualified assent, cf. 59. Orbat sensibus:
21     Not,       2|   account hold it disgraceful to assent to what is false. I do not
22     Not,       2|       never to err in giving his assent (66). Hear Arcesilas' argument:
23     Not,       2|       the sapiens ever gives his assent he will be obliged to opine,
24     Not,       2| therefore he never will give his assent. The Stoics and Antiochus
25     Not,       2|        when awake Ennius did not assent to his sensations at all,
26     Not,       2|          the Mentiens, (95). You assent to arguments which are identical
27     Not,       2|      Mentiens, and yet refuse to assent to it Why so? (96) You demand
28     Not,       2|         two modes of withholding assent; withholding it absolutely
29     Not,       2|         between the two kinds of assent. The general sense will
30     Not,       2|          man from expressing any assent or disagreement (in either
31     Not,       2|        that nature compels us to assent. But Panaetius doubted even
32     Not,       2|          and you yourself refuse assent to the sorites, why then
33     Not,       2|     strong point is that without assent action is impossible (108).
34     Not,       2|         indeed", "in what indeed assent consists." Sensus ipsos
35     Not,       2|        in Strato, yet I will not assent absolutely either to his
36     Not,       2|         I must be careful not to assent to the unknown, which is
37     Not,       2|        belief. The dogma is that assent (meaning absolute assent)
38     Not,       2|         assent (meaning absolute assent) is not to be given to phenomena.
39     Not,       2|          The practice is to give assent (meaning modified assent).
40     Not,       2|         assent (meaning modified assent). There is the same contrast
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