He also coined the expression "Cromwell's rule", which essentially says that one should never assert something to be either completely impossible or completely certain, unless it is logically so.
A physician asserted, "Something pops up, gives you a little tutorial it has to be short and sweet, something you can read in 30 s .And another explained, "You want to provide a little more information, but you can't have it so long, in providing every explanation….
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.
Perhaps -- I remember António Lobo Antunes asserting something close to this idea -- that's the greatest quality you find in a book.
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.
While it might seem from President Bush's poll numbers that there is no more effective way to lead than simply to assert something with the courage of one's convictions, a true democratic leader will affirm his position and articulate the reasons for it clearly while respecting and listening to the positions and reasons of others.
Demands that Trump apply the term "terrorism" to the Las Vegas shooting or the Charlottesville murder are attempts to assert something that should be obvious: armed white men pose a statistically greater threat to the safety and security of Americans than do Muslims, immigrants, or even Islamic militants.
Yablo (2001) stresses, in the case of mathematical fictionalism, that in ordinary uses of mathematical sentences, we seem to assert something apriori and necessary, but it does not seem apriori and necessary that according to the fiction of standard mathematics, things stand thus-and-so.
For after all, if truth is a norm of assertion, then, if you assert something false, you are open to criticism.
During the final months of last season, when City were straining to assert something of the ascendancy the new owners were so intent on establishing, Kompany played with damaged bones and ligaments in his foot.
