Sentence examples for point of assertion from inspiring English sources

These assumptions can be represented by the set of worlds at which they are jointly true, which Stalnaker calls the 'context set.' The point of assertion is to add the proposition asserted to the set of background assumptions and thereby eliminate worlds where it is not true from the context set.

If we construe assertively uttering a sentence exemplifying 'S is P' as asserting the proposition that A is A, then we fail to capture the point of the assertion.

Maps have always served as visual information compendiums, often tacitly revealing some point of view or assertion about who rules the space depicted.

Hence, that is, If and are weakly compatible, then as in the proof of Theorem 2.1, we have that is a unique common fixed point of and The assertion of the theorem follows.

According to Remark 1.8, and because we get that is, If and are weakly compatible, then as in the proof of Theorem 2.1, we have that is a unique common fixed point of and The assertion of the theorem follows.

I don't need to point out that this sort of assertion is as naive as it is vile.

Revolutionary fictionalism, by contrast, insists that when engaging in D we ought only to make such pretend-assertions; the point of engaging in D would be achieved by pretend-assertions.

In December at an event in Israel for a charity he supports, Mr. Adelson made a point of endorsing Mr. Gingrich's assertion that the Palestinians have no historic claim to a homeland.

By late in the second half of a nonconference shocker, what had sounded like the overstatement of deluded youth resonated more as reasonable assertion, if not point of fact.

She's interested in an assertion of a point of view and in a tone of voice and in one's feeling about things.

The starting point of supply-side economics is an assertion that no economist would dispute: taxes reduce the incentive to work, save and invest.