Sentence examples for asserts of it from inspiring English sources

If someone asserts of a subject a predicate ascribing to it something that is (the case) about it (an action the thing is actually performing or an attribute it actually has), the statement is true; whereas if he asserts of it a predicate ascribing something that is not (the case) about it (something different from what is the case about it), then the statement is false (Sophist 263b).

It seems proper to consider a word as the name of that which we intend to be understood by it when we use it; of that which any fact that we assert of it is to be understood; of that, in short, concerning which, when we employ the word, we intend to give information.

It only excites dispute and many of the facts asserted of it are so closely related to fraud that even the apology of hysteria has little effect.

Here's the visual evidence, it asserts, of a warming planet; make of it what you will.

Kockelmans (1987, p. 128) makes essentially the same mistake as Shapiro when he confidently asserts of Heidegger's description that "it is obvious that all of this cannot be seen in the picture" and so concludes that Heidegger is not "describing" Van Gogh's painting at all.

It asserted, of gabardine, "The direct benefits it has conferred upon the human race will, it is to be hoped, last quite as long as those derived from the world's decisive battles".

Thus, 'taller' (maius) counts as a relative term because when we assert of something that it is taller that is, when we predicate the term 'taller' of it we necessarily do so in comparison to something else.

Another egalitarian defense of democracy asserts that it publicly embodies the equal advancement of the interests of the citizens of a society when there is disagreement about how best to organize their shared life.

John Calvert of Fact asserts that it is a stark "conflation of urban and indie music", noting its "portomento synths and rumble-bass (think 'Drop It Like It's Hot') passing under tremolo guitar".

So to discover the real definition of human and assert it of the simple, confused concept of human being is not to convey new information.

The standard critique of abortion asserts that it is murder: the intentional killing of an innocent person.