Europe's governing body Uefa challenges this assertion on the basis of evidence from club and representative international tournaments it organises.
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.
In such a situation, participants would be able to evaluate each other's assertions solely on the basis of reason and evidence in an atmosphere completely free of any nonrational "coercive" influences, including both physical and psychological coercion.
Using another method he proved that the assertion on the Riesz basis property remains valid if condition (7) holds, but condition (6) is replaced by a less restrictive one: q ∈ W 1 s [ 0, 1 ], q ( k ) ( 0 ) = q ( k ) ( 1 ), ∀ k = 0, 1, …, s − 1. holds and | q 2 n | > c n − s − 1 with some c > 0 for sufficiently large n, where s is a nonnegative integer.
Likewise, those assertions provided the basis of Marilyn Frye's endorsement of separatist feminist practices.
These assertions formed the basis of Mr. Bush's justifications for war.
Last month, in what should have been a clear warning to United, the board demanded that the airline provide more data on a host of assertions: the basis for its rosy revenue projections; the speed of its cost-cutting; the extent of its pension liabilities; and the need for additional investment.
When the foundation sued, a federal court in the District of Columbia refused to consider any evidence that the foundation submitted in its defense, relied on secret evidence that the government presented behind closed doors and rejected the foundation's assertion that taking its property on the basis of evidence that the charity had no opportunity to see or rebut was a violation of due process.
The Court wrote: "Nielson does not plausibly allege, on the basis of assertions beyond the trivial and conclusory, that it was objectively reasonable for him to believe that there was such a violation here".
This was the conclusion of Judge Gladys Kessler's 81-page ruling on the habeas petition of Guantánamo prisoner Farhi Seed bin Mohammed, an Algerian who had been held in Guantánamo for eight years on the basis of assertions by CIA torture victim Binyam Mohamed.
