Such non-asserted content, called 'implicature', need not be an addition to the overtly asserted content: e.g., in irony asserted content is negated rather than expanded by the implicature (think of a speaker uttering "Paul is a fine friend" to implicate that Paul has wickedly betrayed her).
This formulation makes intelligible what is superficially paradoxical in Bradley, when he says: 'All judgments are categorical, for they all do affirm about the reality, and assert their content of that.
If Mary utters the sentence assertively, then she (probably) asserts the content of that sentence in her context.
Okamoto, who once asserted that "content has priority over form," recalled in 1959 that he had been interested in how his art "would have an effect on society, not only as something aesthetic, but also as a cry or movement in everyday life".
But in order to state the sort of evidentialism characteristic of Enlightenment thought, it is stipulated that no beliefs asserting the content of religious or mystical experiences count as evidence.
The content of my utterance is what I assert, and the content of my belief is what I believe in both cases, that dogs are lively, loyal creatures.
Beauchamp and Childress assert that the content of the common morality is dictated by the primary objectives of morality, which include the amelioration of human misery, the avoidance of premature death, and the predictable consequences of indifference, conflict, hostility, scarce resources, limited information, and so on.
He had gone to great lengths to keep such unpublished musings private, successfully fighting one biographer all the way to the United States Supreme Court to assert control over their content.
Most groups that have issued an opinion on chimeras acknowledge the existence of traditional animal ethics issues, but are content to assert without argument that the use of non-human animals in chimeric research is justified because of its scientific and, ultimately, clinical importance.
Haley's warning to avoid "telegraphing to readers" and his advice about "building suspense and drama" demonstrate his efforts to influence the narrative's content and assert his authorial agency while ultimately deferring final discretion to Malcolm X.
