The phrase "assertion consists of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when explaining the components or elements that make up a particular assertion or statement.
Example: "The assertion consists of three key elements: a claim, evidence, and reasoning."
Alternatives: "assertion is made up of" or "assertion includes".
According to Brandom (1994: 173 5), the nature of assertion consists in the fact that in asserting, the speaker achieves two different social results at the same time: on the one hand she authorizes the hearer to claim anything that follows from what is asserted and on the other she undertakes the responsibility of justifying it.
The question of what the correctness of an assertion consists in was not itself much discussed, although Dummett (1976: 77 8) is careful to distinguish between the case where a speaker makes an assertion on the basis of adequate evidence, and the case where adequate evidence is available, but the speaker makes the assertion without being aware of it.
It consists of an assertion of local institutionalized control over traditional lands which goes well beyond the purview of the usual alternative of the fortress model: the biosphere reserve model of external and internal joint control of natural resources.
My proposal contradicts the assertion that the realm of aesthetics consists of an unnatural assemblage of phenomena invented by early modern philosophers (Carroll 2008).
Clarke is especially fond of Robert Bridges' assertion in "The Testament of Beauty" that life consists of the "masterful administration of the unforeseen".
In some it consists of sentences, in others sayings, assertions, beliefs, or propositions.
Gordon's article consists of thirty-four paragraphs of charges, quotations, assertions, and "assessments," that are from the mouths of his powerful friends from Washington officialdom.
"Auditors are reminded," the board said, "that audit evidence consists of both information that supports and corroborates management's assertions and information that contradicts such assertions, including assertions regarding fair values, estimates and related disclosures".
This consists of the determination of the degree of support for the assertion that the skull and the ante-mortem image belong to the same person.
The proof system consists of axioms about individual protocol actions and inference rules that yield assertions about protocols composed of multiple steps.
