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Illative sense

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(Metaph.) the faculty of the mind by which it apprehends the conditions and determines upon the correctness of inferences.

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It is true that a new principle is introduced to explain revealed religious belief in PartII, namely the Illative Sense; as Newman systematically points out, however, the Illative Sense is operative in all kinds of human knowledge including science, politics, literary criticism, as well as religion.
Religious belief in Newman's Grammar of Assent by Caiazza, John / Modern Age
But Kirk did not have an entirely negative view of intuition, for he found it to be a distinct part of what Cardinal Newman called the illative sense, "which," Kirk said, "we may vulgarly term the jigsaw-puzzle capabilities of the intellect, a multitude of little evidences falling into place gradually, so that in the end one discovers 'powerful and concurrent reasons' for belief, even though one cannot consciously trace the intricate process by which conviction was brought about.
The achievement of Russell Kirk by Person, James E., Jr. / Modern Age
Newman himself makes the connection to phronesis, arguing that the Illative Sense only extends to matters of reasoning about truth what the Aristotelian virtue provides for reasoning about conduct.
The re-imagined Aristotelianism of John Henry Newman by Hochschild, Joshua P. / Modern Age
 
 
 
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