Sentence examples for asserts something that from inspiring English sources

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For instance, when the Stranger says of Theaetetus, who is currently sitting, "Theaetetus is sitting," his statement is true because it asserts something that is the case about Theaetetus; but when he says of Theaetetus (still sitting), "Theaetetus is flying," his statement is false, because "flying" specifies something different from what is the case about Theaetetus (namely, sitting).

When he asserts something that you do not agree with, say "yes, but…" so that you avoid directly conflicting with him.

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If you want to destroy public confidence, solemnly asserting something that is obviously untrue is a good way to start.

The win was a tribute to a refreshing app that celebrates the best of what the subway has to offer, instead of asserting something that needs to be fixed.

That was not just a case of hyping intelligence, but of asserting something that had already been flatly discredited by an envoy investigating at the behest of the office of Vice President Dick Cheney.

So-called speciesists assert something that is factually true: that there is a fundamental moral distinction between humans and other animals - which is that humans are what we would call subjects: rational, autonomous beings who are capable of being moral and creating moral systems.

Demands that Trump apply the term "terrorism" to the Las Vegas shooting or the Charlottesville murder are attempts to assert something that should be obvious: armed white men pose a statistically greater threat to the safety and security of Americans than do Muslims, immigrants, or even Islamic militants.

When another asserted something that I thought an error, I denied myself the pleasure of contradicting him abruptly, and of showing immediately some absurdity in his proposition; and in answering I began by observing that in certain cases or circumstances his opinion would be right, but that in the present case there appeared or seemed to me some difference.

In particular, he says that Ex Falso is unacceptable for the reason that it asserts something about the consequences of something impossible (van Heijenoort 1967, 421).

A rule-circular argument, by contrast, is an argument of which the conclusion asserts something about an inferential rule that is used in the very same argument.

A statement consists minimally of two parts, with one part (the grammatical subject) referring to the entity the statement is about, and the other (the predicate) asserting something about that entity.

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