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By this statement, he presumably means to say that one is never in a position to conclusively assert that a hypothesis is true, while one may be in a position to conclusively assert that a hypothesis is false.
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With American combat troops leaving Afghanistan in 2014, and the drone campaign already winding down in Pakistan, analysts fear that unless the Pakistani Army can assert itself conclusively, the tribal region could be plunged into deeper chaos.
As Katharine Murphy noted in October: The new history asserts conclusively the organisation was infiltrated and says it is possible that many of Asio's operational efforts during the 1970s and 1980s were compromised through revelations to the Soviets.
It argued that war was justified even when it failed to find those weapons.This is not to assert that the policies were conclusively wrong, though many have argued as much.
In both films it would seem the collective unconscious is asking: "Why did we fight the war?" And the larger question, the posing of which Martin Dies and the House Un-American attackedes Committee attacked rather conclusively soon after: "To whom does the land belong?" Both films assert that the land belongs to the people, "who do most of the living and dying around here".
We assert or deny.
And limits again assert themselves.
What priorities will he assert?
Or so his disciples assert.
The Census Bureau's statisticians assert otherwise.
We now assert that.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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