The whole man reasons: John Henry Newman on the implicit dimension of inference
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John Henry Newman (1801-1890), who exerted a tremendous intellectual influence on the development of Catholic theology in the 19th and 20th centuries, is less known for his contributions to philosophy. Investigating his philosophical masterpiece, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent (1870), we propose to outline Newman's conception of inference, especially showing how the author develops an original proposal regarding the implicit functioning of reasoning. Through examining notions such as informal inference, natural inference, and illocutionary sense, we aim to justify that there are many elements by which Newman can be considered a full-fledged philosopher, insofar as he contributes extensively to a theory of knowledge that rehabilitates a reason for life and exists existentially contextualized.
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