If you want to destroy public confidence, solemnly asserting something that is obviously untrue is a good way to start.
The win was a tribute to a refreshing app that celebrates the best of what the subway has to offer, instead of asserting something that needs to be fixed.
That was not just a case of hyping intelligence, but of asserting something that had already been flatly discredited by an envoy investigating at the behest of the office of Vice President Dick Cheney.
For instance, when the Stranger says of Theaetetus, who is currently sitting, "Theaetetus is sitting," his statement is true because it asserts something that is the case about Theaetetus; but when he says of Theaetetus (still sitting), "Theaetetus is flying," his statement is false, because "flying" specifies something different from what is the case about Theaetetus (namely, sitting).
When another asserted something that I thought an error, I denied myself the pleasure of contradicting him abruptly, and of showing immediately some absurdity in his proposition; and in answering I began by observing that in certain cases or circumstances his opinion would be right, but that in the present case there appeared or seemed to me some difference.
When he asserts something that you do not agree with, say "yes, but…" so that you avoid directly conflicting with him.
The critic insists that to assert something one must believe it.
For the same reason, a finitary general proposition is not to be understood as an infinite conjunction but "only as a hypothetical judgment that comes to assert something when a numeral is given" (ibid).
A statement consists minimally of two parts, with one part (the grammatical subject) referring to the entity the statement is about, and the other (the predicate) asserting something about that entity.
If eliminativism is true, then the eliminativist must permit an intentional property like truth, supposing that in order to assert something one must believe it.
