The phrase "avoid asserting" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when advising someone to refrain from making definitive statements or claims.
Example: "In academic writing, it is important to avoid asserting opinions without supporting evidence."
Alternatives: "refrain from claiming" or "steer clear of stating".
As far as I can tell, the biblical authors avoid asserting any such thing.
But the whole point of modal fictionalism was to deny (or at least avoid asserting) that there were many possible worlds.
Despite his intentions, Camus cannot avoid asserting what he believes to be an objective truth: "We must despair of ever reconstructing the familiar, calm surface which would give us peace of heart" (MS, 18).
With this perspective in mind, we'll avoid asserting false conclusions about a person's character and hopefully form a common basis of understanding, which can help humanity eliminate some of the undue inner strife we inflict upon each other.
Popper was initially uneasy with the concept of truth, and in his earliest writings he avoided asserting that a theory which is corroborated is true for clearly if every theory is an open-ended hypothesis, as he maintains, then ipso facto it has to be at least potentially false.
Note, however, that such theorists are typically careful to avoid explicitly asserting that there are only finitely many feasibly constructible numbers.
Eliminating these proteins avoid erroneously asserting interactions among proteins whose profiles artificially have high correlation due to an overabundance of zeros or ones, rather than any real biological significance.
Next time, the Supreme Court may not be able to avoid conflict by asserting that the courts are not obligated to listen to the international body.
WASHINGTON — Just hours after a national address promising "no whitewash" of Watergate, President Richard M. Nixon privately urged his new attorney general not to appoint a special prosecutor and suggested that a former aide avoid questions by asserting national security.
He says the only way to disbelieve that an Assad chemical weapons attack occurred is to ignore the evidence: Only the most willful desire to avoid reality can assert that this did not occur as described.
George Berkeley, an empiricist philosopher influenced by John Locke, avoids the problem by asserting the metaphysics of idealism: the (apparently material) objects of perception are nothing but ideas before the mind.
