I'm just asserting the rationality of identity politics, not giving my blessing to it.
These are the people who serve us every day and they are just asserting their rights — we would be outraged if we were treated that way".
Take the act of communicating or informing (Mitteilen) as an example: at first glance, Reinach describes it as though communicating were just asserting.
This has come up at every debate, and every time he's just asserted that he respects women which is at this point a joke.
To assert "X is good" is just to assert "I approve of X: Do so as well!" In The Rise of Scientific Philosophy he insists that ethical statements express "volitional decisions," without truth values, that are not subject to empirical knowledge.
To call a sentence true is just to assert or affirm the sentence (Ramsey 1927).
Different minimalists formulate these claims in somewhat different ways: Some suggest that what one needs to know is simply that calling a sentence true is just to assert or affirm the sentence (Ramsey 1927).
According to the deflationary theory of truth, to assert that a statement is true is just to assert the statement itself.
"To suggest that the brain is constrained by chewing muscles is just rubbish," asserts Ralph Holloway, a physical anthropologist at Columbia University.
If he is right, Putnam (1992, p. 33) is just to assert "evolution will not give you any more intentionality than you pack into it".
