If I assert that $p$ and $q$ is a logical consequence of $p$ (more properly, if this relation holds between the sentences expressing the propositions), then if I commit myself to $p$ I also, in some indirect normative sense, commit myself to $q$, but I don't really assert that $q$ if I am unaware of the consequence relation.
In other words: if I assert that we lack consensus, and several folks come along to say - hear, hear!"- we may leave our audience with the impression that there are thousands more just like us who feel the same.
I had tons of experience, I asserted, offering no evidence.
I turned to Fred, "I am going home," I asserted.
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".
Suppose I assert, "If the GDP continues to decline, unemployment will rise", but the GDP does not continue to decline, instead holding steady.
But if the afterlife is, as I assert, an eternal recurrence of this life, then the meek must dine in perpetuity on low carbs and broiled chicken with the skin removed.
In her book Woman and the New Race, she wrote: "while there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization".
What I assert then is wrong if I don't have the belief, despite the existence of black swans.
If I went to a school in 1998, can I assert a borrower defense claim now?
