Religious belief is far more than a matter of assenting to propositions, though it includes that.
I would argue that human research must always be done on fully informed, consenting, or assenting (if children) subjects.
The parents can, by assenting to have them regardless of their health status, reinvest in them the right to life.
Is not assenting solely on the basis of that instinct, itself prompted by grace, entirely rational (as well as meritorious), and therefore sufficient from an epistemic point of view?
Great care was taken throughout to ensure that participants were assenting.
I mast not be taken as assenting to these figures at all.
I accept his statement that he was an assenting party to the repeal of these taxes.
Whatever the reason may be, the fact remains that we are assenting to-night to a rather solemn farce.
