So when I discovered on Aug. 19 that Paul Krugman's Op-Ed column that morning contained a sweeping assertion that was wrong in at least one respect, a formal correction was my sole concern.
It began with a sweeping assertion: "Gov.
In nearly eight years in office, President Obama has sought to reshape the nation with a sweeping assertion of executive authority and a canon of regulations that have inserted the United States government more deeply into American life.
WASHINGTON — In nearly eight years in office, President Obama has sought to reshape the nation with a sweeping assertion of executive authority and a canon of regulations that have inserted the United States government more deeply into American life.
It's a sweeping assertion she may regret later, but you do what you've got to do for the race you're in -- and raising her husband's profile is a smart thing to do here.
Two of the techniques, "pulling" and "pushing," are technically forms of argument ad hominem, in that the immediate basis for an assertion is the opponent's commitment to a similar assertion concerning what we take to be a similar case.
The assertion concerning S 2 is proved in a similar fashion.
"This corroborates our assertions concerning the kinds of personnel that Unit 61398 recruits," Mandiant said in a blog post online.
They note that the president's action arose after Congress refused to change the law in line with his wishes, so the order rests on "an unprecedented, sweeping assertion of executive power," they say.
He's certainly not being concise, since the six words between "Texting" and "is" serve only to muddle up a simple, if too sweeping, assertion.
But it does not quite rise to the level of a Geppetto because of its sweeping assertion.
