Sentence examples for assertion that something from inspiring English sources

Just the assertion that something must be done because it is in some abstract way "the right thing".Wasn't that the justification for the Iraq war?

Though they might be akin to emergent materialists, it is hard to be sure; their assertion that something new emerges at higher levels of organization might refer only to such things as that a computer is different from a mere heap of its components.

Since φ does not mention n, it follows from the assertion that something has property P. The provisions added to (∃E) are to guarantee that x is "arbitrary".

A look at the YouTube comments on the video offers a quick snapshot of the criticisms that Muslims like to fire at each other, the most common of which is the simple assertion that something or everything about you is "not Muslim enough".

Spitzer and Endicott (1978, 18) for example, say that disease categories are "calls to action"; assertions that something has gone wrong within a person's body in a way that produces consequences we think we need to remedy (see also Papineau 1994).

For instance, a speaker can say something true but be impolite in saying it, thereby making an assertion that is incorrect with respect to norms of etiquette.

Perhaps this is a restatement of the assertion that "measuring something that is not quite right accurately may yield far better measurement than measuring the right thing poorly" [ 50], the situation depicted in Figure  3.

This in turn suggests that there is a rule, or norm, governing the practice of making assertions that requires us to assert only something we know.

The mere assertion in court that something is legal doesn't make it legal — even provisionally — but the Justice Department's claim set the stage for the Administration to argue one day that the courts had not yet ruled on the point.

Oliver W.S. Bordallo, Guam: I definitely agree with your assertion that there is something else going on here besides offensive cartoons.

For most people, creationism is not a biological explanation, but an assertion that there is something special about humans which sets us apart from all other animals.