Sentence examples for asserted content from inspiring English sources

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 exhorts speakers to assert content rather than presupposing it, but, because of interactions with other maxims, only forces them to do so when such an assertion would not yield redundancy.

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".

If Mary utters the sentence assertively, then she (probably) asserts the content of that sentence in her context.

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.

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.

On this intuition, only the content that is explicitly expressed is asserted, while further contents may be indirectly conveyed, relying on background knowledge and reasoning.

If, as the pundits have asserted, Obama is content to just let the GOP infighting continue unabated, why did he show up looking like he was 72 to give a webcast speech to the Iowa Caucus on Tuesday?

These data and similar analyses based on DNA content asserted that changes in heart volume could not be explained by hypertrophy alone, and that cardiac myocyte hyperplasia (increase in cell number) contributed to changes in heart mass.

A fictionalist can hold both that in an (ordinary) utterance of sentence of D, the literal content of the sentence is conveyed but not asserted, and that some content other than the literal content is asserted.

The content fictionalist holds that in (ordinary) utterances of sentences of D some content is asserted, but what is asserted is something other than their literal content.