Socrates, by contrast, merely claims to have no knowledge, and he regards certain theses as far more worthy of our credence than their denials.
Creating successful urban middle and high schools is the holy grail of American education, the difference between offering real opportunity to our underprivileged young and merely claiming to do so.
Others lamented that it feels as though Warren's personal journey of self-discovery is being weaponized against Native identity and Native people. . "She merely claims to have Native ancestry, as do millions of others like her," said Ruth Hopkins, a Dakota/Lakota Sioux writer and co-founder of Last Real Indians, a news site focused on tribal issues.
Various commentators over the years have used her assertions against her (there is more evidence supporting them than contradicting them), either to claim that she lied or to deny her skills as a literary artist, but claiming to be merely reporting a true story is a standard novelist's assertion.
Absent further conditions that make due compensation for infringements impossible or severely difficult, rights are merely claims to be duly compensated for losses imposed by certain interferences.
And further still, if we are to push our activism beyond merely claims to rights and citizenry based on sexuality and gender identity, where is there room for these individuals who don't fit under the four narrow categories contained within "LGBT"?
But for the most part, the subvaluationists (and their frenemies) have merely claimed subvaluationism to be at least as attractive as supervaluationism (Hyde and Colyvan 2008).
Mr. Butler just finished a short summer tour with the Furs, which he seemed to have merely tolerated (he claimed to like "being on the bus," but that's all) and said he had no immediate plans to record.
Most worrisome is a challenge raised by Quine 1956 [1976], §II): how does claiming logical truths to be analytic differ from merely claiming them to be obviously and universally correct, i.e., widely and firmly held beliefs, indistinguishable in kind from banalities like "The earth has existed for many years" or "There have been black dogs"?
