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Assessors Assessors, in ecclesiastical law, are learned persons who function is to counsel a judge with whom they are associated in the trial of causes. They are called assessors because they sit beside (Lat. assidere) the judge. Assessors are required to examine documents, consult precedents, and in general explore the laws for points bearing on … Continue reading “Assessors”

Assessor of the Holy Office An official of the Congregation of the Inquisition. The Holy Office is better known as the Congregation of the Universal Inquisition. Its functions at present are to watch over matters connected with faith and to examine into the suspected tenets of persons or books. The Assessor holds the office next … Continue reading “Assessor of the Holy Office”

Assessor a-seser: Lit. one who sits by another, an assistant; among the ancients especially an assistant to the king (compare The assessor of his throne, Dryden, Milton’s P.L., Book vi), or to the judge (see Dryden, Virgil’s Aeneid, vi.583). Later it came to mean one who assesses people or property for purposes of taxation. (1) … Continue reading “Assessor”

Assessment ( or ; also and ) among the Israelites was of two kinds: (a) ECCLESIASTICAL.-According to Exo 30:13, each Israelite (over twenty years old) was obliged to contribute yearly a silver half-shekel (a didrachm, about 35 cents) to the Temple (2Ch 24:6). This tax existed still in full force after the Babylonian exile (Mat … Continue reading “Assessment”

Asses, Feast of Scene in the medieval miracle play, Processus prophetarum, in which Balaam and his ass figured prominently. It was especially popular in northern France but was suppressed in the 15th century because of the indecency into which it had degenerated. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary Asses, Feast of The celebration of the “Festum Asinorum” … Continue reading “Asses, Feast Of”

Asses ASSES or ASSUS. Seaport of Mysia, on the N. of the gulf Adramyttium. Seven miles from the island Lesbos opposite, near Methymna; 20 miles from Troas (Act 20:13-14). The ship with Luke, Sopater, Aristarchus, etc., from Troas, went round cape Lectum, while he went the shorter way (20 Roman miles) by land on foot … Continue reading “Asses”

Assertoric knowledge Knowledge of what is actual or occurring, as opposed to knowledge of what might occur or is capable of occurring, or of what must occur; opposed to problematic knowledge and apodictic knowledge. — A.C.B. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Assertoric See Modality. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Assertion Frege introduced the assertion sign, in 1879, as a means of indicating the difference between asserting a proposition as true and merely naming a proposition (e.g., in order to make an assertion about it, that it has such and such consequences, or the like). Thus, with an appropriate expression A, the notation |-A would … Continue reading “Assertion”

Asser, John (Or Asserius Menevensis). A learned monk of St David’s, Menevia, b. in Pembrokeshire; d. probably, 910. He was educated in the monastery of St. David’s by his kinsmen, Archbishop Asserius. His repute for learning led Kink Alfred to invite him to his court (about 885). Asser required six months for consideration. Illness at … Continue reading “Asser, John”