If she can't do it, she won't read on; if she does do it, she is in the mood to accept everything the author asserts as true.
A statement is racist when it explicitly denigrates and/or asserts as true a negative, longstanding stereotype about an entire group of people, signalled by the colour of their skin.
Or she might assert as little as is needed to preserve the basic modal inferences from actuality: for example, every true P is possibly true, and actually true, but this is the limit of literal modal truth.
Those who "knowingly" taught or asserted them as true would suffer automatic excommunication, with the implied threat of the medieval Inquisition if they persisted.
Hence, for eliminativism to be asserted as a thesis, the eliminativist must believe that it is true; if that is the case, then there are beliefs and the eliminativist claim is false.
Hence, for eliminative materialism to be asserted as a thesis, the eliminativist herself must believe that it is true.
Whenever one asserts, one affirms as true two propositions: explicitly the proposition one articulates as true despite one's belief that it is not, and implicitly the proposition that one believes what one is assertively articulating.
Church's formalism originally introduced in Church 1932, 1933 as a set of postulates for the foundation of formal logic includes conversion (i.e., computational) rules, which allow the replacement of terms with intensionally equivalent ones, and rules for asserting certain terms as "true".
If, within a world, two individuals assert exactly the same propositions, then they are exactly alike vis-à-vis having asserted a true proposition: the one asserted at least one true proposition if and only if the other did.
Tom and Jon have asserted themselves as the true masters of radio for this generation.
Benedict elaborates that this means the divine name could be misused and that Jesus' inclusion of "hallowed be thy name" is a plea for the sanctification of God's name, to "protect the wonderful mystery of his accessibility to us, and constantly assert his true identity as opposed to our distortion of it".
