The outcome was Verificationism, a view which asserts only the statements that are empirically verifiable are cognitively meaningful; in other words, statements or philosophical propositions must be either true (verifiable) or false (falsifiable); otherwise they are meaningless and nonscientific.
This doctrine is important because a bankruptcy trustee can assert only those claims that the bankrupt company could, and if there would be a valid in pari delicto claim against the company, then it can be asserted against the trustee.
Under the Patriot Act, the F.B.I. must assert only that the records gathered through the letter are considered relevant to a terrorism investigation.
When the last of the 56 delegates signed this declaration on July 4, 1776, they surely meant to assert only that the people in the colonies were equal to the people of mother England.
As for the White House, officials will assert only that the president never saw the Mychal Judge law as a gay issue, and that the brief e-mail announcing its enactment was business as usual.
He could assert only under the Copyright Act the economic rights he had kept.
According to Grice's account, the speaker doesn't assert, only implicates that the events took place in the order recounted.
In 1882, when she was four months short of two years, medical knowledge could assert only "acute congestion of the stomach and brain," though later speculation proposes meningitis or scarlet fever.
However, the outlet soon walked back that earlier report, and now asserts only that the defector provided information, not bin Laden's whereabouts.
But Senator Paul Simon, Democrat of Illinois, read from a November 1984 executive order by Mr. Reagan that Congressional requests for information from the executive branch should generally be complied with and that "executive privilege will be asserted only in the most compelling circumstances". Mr. Simon said no compelling reason had been given for withholding the Rehnquist memorandums.
