Sentence examples for act of assertion from inspiring English sources

Analyzing vulnerability is not the same as enacting it; describing positions of pain and longing isn't an admission of powerlessness but an act of assertion, a way of saying, this female consciousness can hold these states of pain and longing as well.

The afternoon was a reminder of the breadth of support for Monsignor Kavanagh, the former pastor of St. Raymond's Church in the Bronx, but it was also a highly public act of assertion as he waits for a final decision from Cardinal Edward M. Egan on whether he can return to ministry.

In this spirit, MacFarlane (2011) considers an account of the speech act of assertion in terms an utterance's capacity to update conversational score.

The hearer does not begin in the neutral position of treating the speaker's act of assertion as requiring evaluative certification as a condition on its acceptance.

Whiting (2008) argues that semantic norms do not govern the act of assertion but the more basic sentential act of producing a sentence.

Given the deep connection between the speech act of assertion and speaker's belief, an utterance of (9) expresses the counterfactual belief about Chirac that he could have been a Socialist.

But Etzioni warns against "habitually interpreting Chinese acts of assertion as aggressive," which, he says, "is symptomatic of a strategy that holds that China cannot be accommodated and that it must be contained by any means necessary".

Abelard distinguishes between dicta or what is said and acts of assertion (or thinking), the former being the fundamental bearers of truth-value.

That rejecting A is tantamount to accepting its negation is a common view, famously endorsed and defended (more precisely in terms of the corresponding speech acts of assertion and denial) by Frege and Peter Geach.

We thus find the usual candidate truth-bearers linked in a tight circle: interpreted sentences, the propositions they express, the belief speakers might hold towards them, and the acts of assertion they might perform with them are all connected by providing something meaningful.

To sympathisers, the MST represents a thrilling act of self-assertion by the normally quiescent poor.