Sentence examples for i asserted from inspiring English sources

If I believe that B if A, i.e. (according to Supp) think A&B much more likely than A&~B, this puts me in a position to make a conditional commitment to B: to assert that B, conditionally upon A. If A is found to be true, my conditional assertion has the force of an assertion of B. If A is false, there is no proposition that I asserted.

What if I asserted my will and I was wrong?

But I asserted my legal rights - the bank paid.

"But I have been keeping the gate shut," I asserted.

"Yes, I am a man of faith," I asserted.

Remember, I asserted that when you have resonance the molecule is unusually stable.

"But on this record I asserted myself more, and I think it was pretty welcome".

According to Moore, if I make an assertion, what I assert is nothing about my ideas or my mental states, but a certain "connexion of concepts".

Third, Austin's assertion is made using the apparently performative form, "I assert … "—a form that appears, moreover, to falsify the generalisation that performatives lack truth-values.

I assert that these risks can be contained, respectively, through contract design, investment strategy, and institutional design.

This change, I assert, is pushing medicine back towards a narrow, reductionist biomedical model.