Or we might think that the value both is needed for a semantic reason: we might be required to express the contradictory nature of some of our beliefs, assertions and so on.
It was, in its way, Poitier's last great statement of belief, an assertion of his right to be a person on film.
But if the subject asserts "P but I don't believe that P" in such cases, she does not (contra the initial supposition) really have a rational command of the nature of belief and assertion; and thus it's not a genuine case of self-blindness as originally intended.
Just as his NCAA predecessors have done before him, Emmert paternalistically lectures interviewers and audiences alike on the fundamental tenets of the Collegiate Model, which hinges on the impression, belief, and assertion that "College athletes are students, not employees".
Colleges and universities – and their leaders – have become victims of the disintegration of civility in public discourse, victims of the fact that we seem to live in an era in which belief and assertion (and in the case of Donald Trump, exaggeration and falsehood) seem to have the same validity as knowledge and facts.
The more certain they are of their beliefs, their assertions, the less they blink.
Some Jewish and Christian leaders, along with other critics, have expressed worries that the movie could rekindle old beliefs and assertions that Jews were responsible for the crucifixion.
It is commonly said that our beliefs and assertions aim at truth.
Propositions are again cast as the contents of beliefs and assertions, and propositions have structure which at least roughly corresponds to the structure of sentences.
The idea here, of course, is not that our beliefs and assertions are always true in a statistical sense, or even that they are mostly true.
