"We need to face the way of our living," asserts one young volunteer.
"Buyers are pounding on the door," asserts one Disney executive.
But Fillmore's study has some problems of its own, asserts one epidemiologist studying the alcohol-mortality link.
We might maintain that (1)–(4) have the same assertoric content and hence that they say the same thing: anyone who asserts one of these (or believes it, rejects it, and so on), also asserts the others.
Whenever one asserts, one affirms as true two propositions: explicitly the proposition one articulates as true despite one's belief that it is not, and implicitly the proposition that one believes what one is assertively articulating.
In other words, it does not signal moral agency unless one asserts one's identity knowing that it will lead to harming others, in which case it is the act of assertion, not identification, that is doing the work here.
When one asserts, one intends to "invite belief, and not belief based on the evidence of the statement so much as on the faith of the statement" (Fried 1978, 56).
The Cannabis Manifesto asserts eight truths, the last of which is: "Legalization cannot and will not be stopped".
The Authors assert two reasons why the full-text-search function harms their traditional markets.
Petitioners assert two lines of arguments as to why EPA's interpretation is impermissible.
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