According to Green (2007: 160), an assertion that $p$ invokes a set of conventions according to which the speaker "can be represented as bearing the belief-relation to $p$".
A lexicon is thus constitutive of the objects of knowledge (Kuhn 2000 [1993], 245); and consequently, Kuhn rejected characterizations of scientific progress according to which science zeros in on the truth: "no shared metric is available to compare our assertions … and thus to provide a basis for a claim that our (or, for that matter, his) are closer to the truth" (2000 [1993], 244).
Attempts to present the veil as a tool of empowerment, she writes, "rest on a dubious post-modernist conception of power according to which whatever a woman undertakes to do is liberating as long as she thinks that she is engaged in some form of 'resistance' or self-assertion, no matter how misguided".
It is part of a full account of assertion, according to Jary, that assertions are subject to these safeguards.
The NSA has a moderate degree of confidence in this assertion, according to the report.
Sorensen differentiates between assertions and non-assertions according to "narrow plausibility": "To qualify as an assertion, a lie must have narrow plausibility.
They did not, according to the Federal Air Marshal Service, which had previously left unchallenged assertions by Annie Jacobsen, a freelance writer on the flight, that they did.
The respondent had to indicate the extent to which they agreed with these assertions by answering according to a scale from 1 (absolutely disagree) to 7 (absolutely agree).
A simple assertion – but invalid, according to some.
