Allies of the organization make empty assertions, seizing upon Robert Heinlein's line "An armed society is a polite society," for example.
As Maureen Dowd succinctly notes ("Smoking Dutch Cleanser," column, Feb. 11), the Bush administration has a long history of self-serving and self-protecting pronouncements, going back at least to the empty assertions that Al Qaeda was in league with Saddam Hussein.
He said American officials contacted him Thursday morning and said they would visit later in the day, In interviews Wednesday with Western journalists, Mr. Chen, said he wanted to leave China, preferably for the United States, because "guaranteeing citizens' rights in China is empty talk," an assertion that sharply undermines the American rationale for releasing him from diplomatic protection.
If the set ⋂ { ε > 0 : C ≠ ∅ } C is not empty then the following assertions are true: If we denote by ε ¯ = inf { ε > 0 : C ≠ ∅ } ε, then ⋂ { ε > 0 : C ≠ ∅ } C = C. ε ¯ = inf t ∈ U sup q ∈ O b j U ( t ) d ( t, q ).
And Trump's assertions aren't empty: they're weapons against reason, which means that they're attacks on the ideas of justice, science, and culture.
The A∙∙∙A and B∙∙∙B quadrants are empty, which is in consistent with the assertions in point 3 above.
When someone can't tell the difference between an argument and an assertion, between a platform and an empty platitude, between a fact and a falsehood, it makes fear mongering easier.
Notwithstanding Flanagan's stream of forceful assertions, "Girl Land" is a dusty, empty place, bearing little resemblance to your 21st-century daughter's colorful, noisy, vibrant life.
And even for realists who are not convergentists as such, the importance of cashing out the metaphor of theories being close to the truth is pressing in the face of antirealist assertions to the effect that the metaphor is empty.
