Wittgenstein answers this question, in part, by asserting that the only genuine propositions that we can use to make assertions about reality are contingent ('empirical') propositions, which are true if they agree with reality and false otherwise (4.022, 4.25, 4.062, 2.222).
Here's a piece of advice nobody will take: before you make assertions about numbers, look at the numbers.
Structure/function claims describe the effects of products on the body; however, manufacturers are not permitted to make assertions about their products' effects on specific diseases.
The spinmeisters of the art market, including fair promoters, are forever making assertions about their commercial conquests that have to be taken on blind faith.
"This was not a junior bureaucrat freelancing" or administration sources making assertions about "on the ground" conditions; it was essentially a policy statement.
Finally, it is important to consider the counterfactual when making assertions about the contributions of the University of California to the state and the nation.
It could easily do so, replied A. If a member of the public made assertions about MI5, that could undermine the agency.
To be precise, the story never made assertions about China, until that statement linked Wen Jiabao's relatives to the national image.
The only facts that speak for themselves are that Daley is dating a man, and wants to be honest about the fact so the media doesn't try to make assertions about his personal life and preferences for him.
He took it like a man". General Noriega appeared to regard his chance to speak before sentencing as an opportunity to make assertions about American intelligence activities in Latin America that he said had been suppressed during the trial.
