A familiar example of such a view is expressivism in ethics, which holds that ethical assertions (e.g., "Vanity is bad") function as expressions of attitude ("Tsk tsk") or as prescriptions ("Do not be vain!") (see ethics: Irrealist views: projectivism and expressivism).
Yet the director, who says he votes Socialist because, to his disgust, Sweden's dominant Social Democratic Party has scuttled to the center, never fails to furnish his own political and ethical assertions with courteous loopholes for others to jump through.
Most of the Megarian philosophers are better known for the high value they placed on dialectical skill and for their influence on Stoic logic than for positive ethical assertions of their own.
The empiricism and objectivity that were hallmarks of Dewey's ethical theory were antithetical to the Heideggerian or Sartrean interpretation of normative ethical assertions as arbitrary commitments which represent the choices of persons who bear the burden of freedom and self-consciousness.
Because such standards undoubtedly exist for mathematical and ethical discourse, some assertions complying with them will be true in at least this minimal sense.
Professor Dworkin opens the ethical battle with his assertion that Judge Posner's "ethics in publishing a book about Clinton's impeachment so soon after the event are open to question, because judges are not meant to enter political controversies".
"His statement was not intended to hurt, but it is an assertion that encompasses the ethical life of eight-hundred million people.
gWallet, with its assertions of legitimacy and ethical standards, is entering at the right moment when this type of platform is very much needed in the virtual currency industry.
Yet in that very assertion is a set of ethical values--of open access to information to benefit society, of rewarding inventiveness, and of basic justice to prevent someone selling your invention without due recompense.
As a poster on the Occupywallstreet.com forum who goes by "apacheman" put it, "There is no moral, ethical, or legal ground to sustain an assertion of the right to unlimited wealth for an individual or corporation.
While participants had ethical concerns with the eldest daughter's assertion that "I know what my mother's wishes are.
