For some, this came in flight, as with the Bielski brothers and their community hidden in the Belarussian forests; for others, in combat, as in the Warsaw ghetto; and for yet others, in the assertion of belief and identity, as with the drawings made by the children in Theresienstadt.
A Declaration is "an assertion of belief or knowledge".
And if sometimes one resists plain assertions of belief, as in one or two of the "Wounds" poems, then there are pieces such as "On Easter Saturday" that are wholly convincing in their depiction of a faith hedged with doubt and uncertainty.
When the sceptic challenges the believer to apply a falsification test to their assertions of belief, there is an underlying implication that were that test to be passed, the sceptic would be persuaded to assent to those particular assertions of the believer - even if the believer would not have abandoned his beliefs had the test been failed.
But I do know that the content of school curriculum must reflect and humanize the lives our children have lived, and act as an engine for shaping their feelings and impulses into constructive acts of agency and positive assertions of belief.
It was, in its way, Poitier's last great statement of belief, an assertion of his right to be a person on film.
In order to be a legitimate basis for public policy, does the assertion of a belief need to be paired with an empirical argument about the impact of the proposed policy that the belief is being cited to justify?
Syria's pluralistic society, which once rose above sectarian identity in a region often characterized by a homicidal assertion of religious belief, is now faced with civil disintegration and ethnic cleansing.
It was definitely not an assertion of the belief "that all airline passengers who are perceived to be Muslim can legitimately be viewed as security threats," as the Council on American-Islamic Relations stated.
But Mr. Bush mentioned that plan only in passing, in the context of a fairly general assertion of his belief that his agenda, priorities and attitude of compassion should appeal to minority voters who had perhaps been suspicious of Republicans in the past.
It is a presupposition for applying the falsification principle to religious language that some assertions of religious belief or non-belief could potentially have been established purely from empirical evidence, even had none actually been so.
