Sentence examples for one assert from inspiring English sources

In fact, some phenomenally successful authors who've actively chosen the independent route, JA Konrath being one, assert that the pendulum has swung so hard to the self-publishing side that it will never again swing back.

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").

Whenever one asserts, one affirms as true two propositions: explicitly the proposition one articulates as true despite one's belief that it is not, and implicitly the proposition that one believes what one is assertively articulating.

When one asserts, one intends to "invite belief, and not belief based on the evidence of the statement so much as on the faith of the statement" (Fried 1978, 56).

In other words, it does not signal moral agency unless one asserts one's identity knowing that it will lead to harming others, in which case it is the act of assertion, not identification, that is doing the work here.

Kenyan lawmakers recently warned Obama not to raise the issue on his visit, with one asserting that he should be ejected from parliament if he does so.

And it may be possible to produce deep theories to justify why one has the rights that one asserts.

An Asserted Versioning database is one that contains at least one asserted version table.

So, when one says: "Zoë knows that there is a chicken in the yard", one asserts that Zoë is the agent who bears the propositional attitude knowing towards the proposition expressed by "there is a chicken in the yard".

No one asserts that Mr. Corzine told Ms. O'Brien to take customer money.

One asserted, "What were war crimes in 1945 is foreign policy in 2003".