The Subject provides "something by reference to which the proposition can be affirmed or denied," that is, "the entity in respect of which the assertion is claimed to have validity" ((Halliday & Matthiessen 2014): 146).
The Subject is typically realized by a nominal group and provides "something by reference to which the proposition can be affirmed or denied," that is, "the entity in respect of which the assertion is claimed to have validity" ((Halliday & Matthiessen 2014): 145-146).
We are three generations, maybe more, into an era in which the once-cheeky assertions of historical revisionism — Columbus didn't discover America, Europeans invented scalping, the founding fathers were real estate sharpies — have become utterly conventional, the refuge of grad-school plodders and boomer journalists alike.
for which the assertion (iii) follows.
It is here that we might pick up Robert Brandom's suggestion, following Sellars, that we should think of the existence of inferential processes or processes of reasoning as presupposing participation within social communicative interactions in which the making of an assertion is considered as a move in a language-game of the "giving and asking for reasons".
The Realization algorithms sometimes produce Constant Specifications containing self-referential justification assertions \(c : A ( c)\), that is, assertions in which the justification (here \(c)\) occurs in the asserted proposition (here \(A ( c))\).
Assertions in which the related noun phrases correspond to UMLS categories are then returned to the user.
It is reflected in another decision Mr. Mukasey cited, Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer, a 1952 case in which the Supreme Court rejected President Harry S. Truman's assertion that he had the constitutional authority to seize steel mills during the Korean War.
But the response has been a patriotic circling of the wagons, culminating in a speech in which the prime minister... makes the nauseating assertion that the most sublime value ever created by the Albanians was the KLA .On Friday, notes our source, "we learn[ed] that Ramush Haradinaj's permission to join his heavily pregnant wife for Christmas has been overturned on prosecution appeal".
One can see modalities as making explicit the context in which an assertion is made.
