Foundation analysts used the federal test scores to evaluate assertions by many states that their students had made impressive gains from 2003 to 2005.
Drawing on the collective expertise of The Globe's staff in covering Mr. Romney's tenure as Massachusetts governor and his lucrative career at the private-equity firm Bain Capital, the book judiciously assesses his evolving views (or, in some cases, outright reversals) on an array of social issues, while trying to evaluate assertions he's made on the campaign trail and in two books.
According to, for instance, (an earlier view of) Paul Boghossian (1989: 513), the mere fact that we can evaluate assertions as correct or incorrect shows that words are governed by norms of use.
The proper framework for evaluating assertions of government power--the only framework that equips judges to discharge their duty of independent judgment--is judicial engagement.
Judges are thus bound to evaluate assertions of federal power over individuals to determine whether they are justified by a constitutionally proper reason or rest only on the mere will of officials.
I am grateful to Cato Unbound for hosting the debate and although my disagreements with my interlocutors were substantial, I am also grateful to Professor David Strauss, Professor Barry McDonald, and Ed Whelan for challenging my argument that the next Justice should adopt a particular approach--judicial engagement--in evaluating assertions of government power.
It is striking that Justice Thomas, so cognizant of judicial duty and so strident in his criticism of doctrines of judicial deference that require judges to abdicate their duty in evaluating assertions of administrative power, has not yet recognized that the modern rational-basis test is incompatible with that duty.
This showed that individuals are faster to evaluate affirmative assertions than negative assertions.
We describe how PsycoTrace applies introspection to evaluate the assertions and analyze the state of the monitored machine and of its data structures.
The dynamic tools parse the call trace of the process to check that it belongs to the grammar language and evaluate the assertions.
You read it, let's hope, but how do you evaluate its assertions, its questions, its incursions into a world that steadily and frenziedly unfolds independent of most poets and poetry?
