On one end of the spectrum is the view that all ordinary assertive uses of the quantifiers 'there is' and 'some' are ontologically committing, a view that may be dubbed "allism" (see Lewis 1990, and §1.6.4 above).
While the growth of the Brazilian economy has recently slowed, along with that of other big developing countries, like China and India, President Dilma Rousseff has found herself in the position of defending her government's development model, which involves the assertive use of state-controlled companies and banks to advance antipoverty projects.
That a proposition (or sentence) is actually accepted, i.e., that a judgement is made, must therefore be indicated by an additional sign like Frege's judgement-stroke or it remains implicit in the assertive use of a declarative sentence.
I began to press harder in other ways, and it worked: I won a case in the Supreme Court (holding that judges could categorically reject a harsh sentencing guideline for crack), and then began pressing for the assertive use of federal clemency to right-size old crack sentences.
Not just a short-term shift in governing style and a re-election strategy, Mr. Obama's increasingly assertive use of executive action could foreshadow pitched battles over the separation of powers in his second term, should he win and Republicans consolidate their power in Congress.
But there is no question that China's economic power and its assertive use of its navy and commercial vessels to project influence has changed the regional dynamics and worried many of its smaller neighbors.
And while Vietnam, the Philippines, Japan, South Korea and Malaysia bear some responsibility for ratcheting up frictions, China's assertive use of its navy and commercial vessels (on top of its economic power) has worried many of its smaller neighbors.
The utterances philosophers usually take as paradigmatic are assertive uses of declarative sentences, where the speaker says something.
Some people speculate that Gyanendra will try to make more assertive use than his brother of the powers the king retains, especially over the army and some aspects of foreign policy.
It should be noted that this phenomenon is by no means a trifle: as will be shown later, stipulations about the way the Proponent can make use of the assertive content of such attacks by the Opponent are precisely what yields a variety of dialogical systems corresponding to (e.g).g
