Therefore, if it is held that to deny is to assert a negation, the idea is that acts of denial can be analyzed as assertions of (propositions expressed by) negated sentences.
So the classical compatibilists analyzed any assertion that an agent could have done otherwise as a conditional assertion reporting what an agent would have done under certain counterfactual conditions.
In this paper, we formally analyze this assertion giving bounds of the distance of the ε-point to the hypersurface.
It's common for fact checks to include links to many sources used to analyze an assertion.
Heede tested that assertion, analyzing the federal budget to find the hidden subsidies to the coal and oil industries, even including the cost of treating workers who developed black lung disease from coal mining.
So the claim 'Martians don't exist' is analyzed as an assertion about the concept martian, namely, that nothing falls under it.
Not every assertion analyzed has been so trivial.
The classical compatibilists wanted to show their incompatibilist interlocutors that when one asserted that a freely willing agent had alternatives available to her that is, when it was asserted that she could have done otherwise that assertion could be analyzed as a conditional statement, a statement that is perspicuously compatible with determinism.
The Iraqis say new technology in analyzing the soil will allow weapons inspectors to verify its assertion that it literally poured its stocks of VX nerve gas and anthrax into the ground in 1991.
We describe how PsycoTrace applies introspection to evaluate the assertions and analyze the state of the monitored machine and of its data structures.
When PolitiFact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning truth squad sponsored by the Tampa Bay Times, analyzed more than 300 assertions by Trump since he announced his presidential bid, it found that roughly 70percentt were mostly or completely false while another 15percentt were half-truths.
