Sentence examples for asserted the existence of from inspiring English sources
The inquiry stemmed from anonymous letters that asserted the existence of bank accounts in Switzerland or Liechtenstein through which the dismissed executives were said to have received illicit payments.
Hellenistic thinkers, especially the Stoics, asserted the existence of a natural law that applied to all human beings equally; this idea became the foundation of Roman legalism and Christian notions of equality (see Stoicism).
John Boehner, for instance, tweeted, "Obama admin admits 'crucify' strategy for job creators," a nonsensical twofer in that it asserted the existence of a sanctioned, Administration-wide "crucify" policy while invoking the handy-dandy "job creators," a phrase designed to deflect criticism on contact.
Several studies have asserted the existence of a strong and complex genetic component.
Prior to the modern (Renaissance) period, classical and medieval theorists asserted the existence of a universal teleology.
Armstrong proposed a "two-step" fiction, according to which there was a "great fiction", which asserted the existence of a lot of "little fictions", each of which completely described a possible world.
On the other hand, some constructions may share some syntactic features with the existential, but they should not be regarded as such: Lei (1993) lists three conditions for a clause to be called an existential: 1) Semantically, it asserts the existence of something, that is, there exists something (New) in someplace (Given).
If the Axiom of Infinity is reformulated to assert the existence of Vω , then the ranks proved to exist as sets by Zermelo set theory are exactly those which appear in the natural model Vω+ω of this theory.
The other was the 'inflationary' approach, which posited entities corresponding to all statements, thus 'creating' or asserting the existence of things that (Berlin believed) didn't exist at all.
(A numerical sentence is a first-order sentence asserting the existence of some objects. For example, the numerical sentence that there exist at least two objects is: ∃x∃y(x ≠ y).) If van Inwagen is correct, it is indeterminate whether or not the relevant numerical sentence is true, in which case one of the constituent expressions—'∃', 'x', 'y', '~', '=' must be vague.
Erin and Abby, childhood friends, co-authored a book, "Ghosts from Our Past," asserting the existence of ghosts.
