Anything within the scope of this operator is asserted to be true in the named story; what is outside its scope is to be understood literally.
The second kind of statement was cognitively empirical, that is, a class of statements that are asserted to be true or false by virtue of sense experience.
The series' signatures, all still in place, are a self-consciousness that extends beyond the frame; cutaways to magazine covers and clippings and web sites to advance the story, and often to assert the falsity of something a character just asserted to be true; and a taste for double-entendres the speaker does not understand.
But insofar as it asserts itself to be true, it implies that some truth exists [infert aliquam veritatem esse]" (Quaestiones disputatae de mysterio Trinitatis, q. 1, a. 1, ad 5; Latin text excerpted in Spade (1975, 53)).
Buridan does not say in his commentary on the Posterior Analytics, and in the Summulae he rejects his earlier view for the rather different reason that it is false "that every proposition signifies or asserts itself to be true" (S 9.8, 7th sophism: 968).
But writers (and newspapers) too timid or too disingenuous to assert what they know to be true may not deserve those reputations in the first place.
By contrast, one who asserts something she does not believe to be true has lied.
Now recall that in a dialogue, the formal restriction SR-5 says in substance that only what is asserted by O can be assumed to be true, and therefore that O is the builder of the model.
The opposite seems to be true; the better income asserts a positive impact on the quality of life.
What is asserted may well be true but it is very difficult to call anybody to account to establish its reliability.
