Sentence examples for is proper to assert from inspiring English sources

Also, Ishani Maitra and Brian Weatherson (2010: 112) propose what they call The Evidence Responsiveness Rule, that one assert that p only if one's attitude towards $p$ is properly responsive to the evidence (they also propose to complement it with an action rule, that it is proper to assert that $p$ only if acting as if $p$ is "the thing for you to do").

Angus Robertson, the SNP leader in Westminster, said it was "right and proper" to assert the Scottish interest on foxhunting given that there are moves in Holyrood to toughen up Scotland's law on the issue.

Angus Robertson, the SNP leader in Westminster, said it was "right and proper" to assert the Scottish interest on foxhunting given that there were moves in Holyrood to toughen up Scotland's law on the issue.

So it's proper to pay attention.

Even Cheney was proper to Biden.

It is primarily improper but secondarily proper to assert what you reasonably believe that you know but you in fact don't.

A large part of the intuitions that serve to support one or the other norm theory relies on raw intuitions about what one should or shouldn't assert in some situation, or what is proper or improper to assert there.

To assert that ancestors are hypothetical is to assert that evolutionary descent itself is hypothetical.

Relation is proper only to the person.

Recently, John Turri (2013) has published results from a series of survey studies, where the aim was to determine whether speakers accept a factive or a non-factive norm: the norm is factive in case an assertion is proper only if what is asserted is true, otherwise non-factive.

But it is unscientific to assert that it would.