Bach directly infers that the norm of assertion is the belief norm from the fact that an assertion is sincere if, and only if, the speaker believes what she asserts.
"If I have daughters," she asserts, "I will send them to school because I have known the hardships of not being educated".
She asserts that if her government "had continued for its full five-year term, it would have been difficult for Osama bin Laden to set up base in Afghanistan in 1997 when he established Al Qaeda to openly recruit and train young men from all over the Muslim world".
At the same time, an attraction to certain cultural stereotypes can be positive, she asserted, if "it inspires us to be happier, more expressive -- any or all of those things that we want to be more of".
Indeed, some Democrats said they were particularly worried that Mrs. Clinton would be tarnished even if she was, as she asserted, ignorant of her brother's efforts related to the pardon and commutation.
She asserted that, if elected, she will fight to bring us back to the heady days of $2 per gallon gasoline.
Clinton traces her loss directly to Comey; she asserted recently that if the election had been held on October 27th, "I would be your President".
It is unclear whether Ms. Powers believes that Islam is by its nature "fundamentalist," or if she is asserting that Yusuf Islam practices a "fundamentalist" strain of it.
If she was asserting that he forced a retraction by raping her or threatening to rape her, there was no reason why she should not also have explained her retraction of the rapes by reference to any such threats".
And, as one character asserts, if she can win Florida on Election Night.
