SOURCE: “John Henry Newman and the Grammar of Assent,” in Reason and the Heart: A Prolegomenon to a Critique of Passional Reason, Cornell University Press, 1995, pp. 55-83.
In the following essay, Wainwright observes Newman's process of informal reasoning—his “illative sense”—as it is demonstrated in An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent.
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