Sentence examples for indirect assertion from inspiring English sources

Both MacFarlane (2011) and García-Carpintero (2013) argue that we should distinguish between what is said and what is asserted, and that this allows us to maintain that an indirect assertion that swans are black are made by means of directly saying that the speaker commits himself.

Irony does, however, qualify as indirect assertion on the definition given by Recanati (1987: 125).

According to both, Pagin's attempt to block the indirect assertion route fails.

The notion of an indirect assertion is controversial, and in need of further clarification.

The idea is that if the intuitive validity of the inference is preserved, the proposed sentence can be accepted as being used for an indirect assertion.

However, although in a sense the act is indirect, since the speaker asserts something different from what she would do on a normal, direct use of the sentence, and relies on the hearer to realize this, it is not an indirect assertion by either definition.

The contrast is, however, not altogether sharp, partly because of the idea of indirect speech acts, including indirect assertions.

What is common to all ideas is that indirect assertions are not explicit: what is expressed, or literally said, is not the same as what is asserted.

4- The OxyDB function confidence: This rates the degree of confidence (DC) for each OxyDB_ID function and can be described as follows: DC_1 corresponds to experimentally demonstrated and published functions; DC_2 relates to an indirect function assertion (e.g. mutant, phenotype, microarrays or translational fusions) and DC_3 is based on sequence similarity to proteins rated DC_1 or DC_2.

Stephen Neuwirth, one of the plaintiffs' lawyers, said that in a ruling in June, the Supreme Court offered indirect support for assertions that managed care officials had violated their fiduciary duties to patients under Erisa.

Both the bait study and the exclusion experiment provide indirect support for our assertion that C. femoratus is the main disperser of AG seeds in the study area.