Sentence examples for Pragmatic assertion from inspiring English sources
There is consensus across sectors that in order to foster use of QSAR, industry must demonstrate successful actual applications; ACACON is particularly convinced of this pragmatic assertion.
In pragmatic terms, the assertion of one subcontrary (Some men are bald) is not only compatible with, but actually conversationally implicates, the other (Some men are not bald), given Grice's Maxim of Quantity ("Make your contribution as informative as is required"; see the entries on Paul Grice, pragmatics, and implicature).
(He vaguely hints at a pragmatic account of such assertion, remarking that, perhaps, "what we mean by them will eventually justify itself").
The article will situate assertion within speech act theory and pragmatics more generally, and then go on to present the current main accounts of assertion.[1] By an account of assertion is here meant a theory of what it consists in to make an assertion.
That simple assertion comes straight from the Jones manual of pragmatic good sense.
Such a pragmatic posture, coming immediately after a period of more overt assertion of traditional al Qaeda behavior, has opened up a potentially consequential division within Jabhat al-Nusra.
An assertion of plausibility within the context of an inquiry typically has pragmatic connotations as well: to say that a hypothesis is plausible suggests that we have some reason to investigate it further.
