Abstract

GALAN VELEZ, Francisco Vicente. Lonergan, Reader of An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent. Rev. filos.open insight [online]. 2017, vol.8, n.13, pp.217-244. ISSN 2395-8936.

This article shows the influence that the reading of the Grammar of Assent exercises on Bernard Lonergan’s book Insight: A Study of human understanding, especially in his analysis of our capacity to judge about the truth of a statement. Newman’s illative sense is our reasonableness, which is similar to prudence, but in the cognitional domain, and we can find it in every human being. Lonergan says that it is a rudimentary and inevitable process, and that there is no more foundation for knowledge than our pragmatic engagement in our willing to know.

Keywords : assent; illative sense; judgment; reason; truth.