Sentence examples for content assertion from inspiring English sources

Even Dummett might tolerate the above proposal that Kripke is onto one explication of semantic content, assertion, proposition, and so on: he resists a simple yes or no answer to the question whether 'St.

Stanley (1997b, 132, 140, 155), by contrast, is much less favorably disposed to say that Dummett's distinction could be said to bring to light more than one notion of semantic content, assertion, proposition, and the like.

But Mr. Coppola and Ms. Bosley insist that she was dismissed because Dr. Larson was intent on controlling the newspaper's content, an assertion that other faculty members agreed with.

NetInf information objects allow content trust assertions.

The topic of the content of assertions is too large to be covered here.

In this view, it is not necessary that the content of the assertion really be false, only that the liar believes it to be false.

That is, lies must be in the form of a statement, it must be the intention of the liar to cause the target to believe the content of the assertion, and it must be the case that only persons can lie or be lied to.

If they were right, it is hard to hang on to the idea that "conceptual clarity" is a goal of philosophical inquiry … Metaphilosophical issues hover in the wings of the debates over whether the content of an assertion varies from utterer to utterer and from audience to audience.

Error theorists and skeptics about moral truth-aptness disagree about the content of moral assertions, but they still agree that no substantive moral claim or belief is true, so they are both skeptics about moral truth.

So Mr bin Laden must content himself with the assertion that on September 11th, "God Almighty hit the United States at its most vulnerable spot.

On the metasemantic account of assertion, the content conveyed by a sentence depends on the shared presuppositions of the speaker and audience.