Sentence examples for evaluative assertion from inspiring English sources
A complementary view held by some logical positivists was that an evaluative assertion, properly understood, is not a statement of fact but either an expression of the speaker's attitude (e.g., of approval or disapproval) or an imperative a speech act aimed at influencing the behaviour of others.
All other claims, including the evaluative assertions made by traditional political and ethical philosophers, are literally meaningless, hence not worth discussing.
(Again, not an evaluative statement, just reporting).
The expressivist contends that we can make sense of the capacity of practical reason to generate states with the peculiar structure and function of intentions only if evaluative and normative assertions are understood along these lines.
The hearer does not begin in the neutral position of treating the speaker's act of assertion as requiring evaluative certification as a condition on its acceptance.
Pointing to the difference between fact-stating and evaluative discourse may help to distinguish assertions from evaluations, but does not, again, help to distinguish assertion from other acts within the fact-stating family, such as conjectures and assumptions.
"Individuals need evaluative information about others to evaluate themselves".
"You should try to be more evaluative to get depth into the statement".
"But it's an evaluative process.
*Public company disclosure of significant current trend and evaluative data.
No assertion goes unqualified.
