The phrase "act of asserting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the process or action of making a statement or claim confidently.
Example: "The act of asserting one's beliefs is essential for effective communication in debates."
Alternatives: "process of claiming" or "action of stating".
To them, the very act of asserting one's autonomy is suspect, which is why when someone does they look for ulterior motives.
In the case of the liar who says "What I am saying is false," the mental act of asserting is present, and for that matter so is the physical act of uttering the words.
Much of it is obscure to modern scholars, but it seems to appeal to a distinction between a mental act of asserting and a vocal act of uttering a proposition.
For me, identifying as a single mother by choice is a political and defiant act of asserting my bodily integrity and reproductive choice in a society that doesn't value black motherhood and most certainly black single motherhood.
Merely having a subjective idea of a proposition does not require that we assert the truth of the proposition in question, whereas a judgment is an act (Handlung) of asserting the truth of the proposition grasped by the judgment (WL III, 108, 199).
Loop closing is the act of correctly asserting that a vehicle has returned to a previously visited location.
The defendant "acted for the purpose of asserting his gang's dominance over its particular criminal adversaries, namely, members of rival gangs," a panel of the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday.
"[Morales] acted for the purpose of asserting his gang's dominance over its particular criminal adversaries, namely, members of rival gangs," the appeals court's ruling reads.
According to Gould the term is a "deductive intellectual consequence of asserting that natural selection acts as the creative mechanism of evolutionary change".
Until recently, the Federal Reserve's operations were hidden from the public, so successfully that, in 1981, the Fed beat back a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, asserting that secrecy was indispensable to its operations.
Michael Gove, the new justice secretary, is planning to implement two key manifesto pledges: scrapping the Human Rights Act and asserting the supremacy of the UK's supreme court over Strasbourg.
