Sentence examples for positive assertions from inspiring English sources

Identifying concepts that are explicitly asserted as not being the case and separating them from positive assertions becomes of critical importance if we are to understand the implications of medical text.

Klotz's points involved few positive assertions.

It is noted more for its criticism of Aristotle and its influence upon Stoic logic than for any positive assertions.

It made me realise that the bunch of managerial carrots which include positive assertions, directions, estimations, recognitions and, crucially, celebrations, was infinitely preferable to motivating sceptical, harried academics, or put upon administrators, with the flaccid stick of shame.

"What startled me," Mr. Greenstein said, "was these extremely positive assertions, like 'The president puts the money in the bank, so that's how my parents get paid.' " It was also at Yale that Mr. Greenstein met his wife, Barbara, a fellow graduate student who is now a social worker and family counselor.

By contrast, Kuhnian paradigms include a set of positive assertions about the world.

For instance, he is not not-wise, and such a statement is not a positive assertion.

While it had not contained a positive assertion of their truth, there was no suggestion that there was reason to doubt their veracity.

It's not so much a new kindness in parenting as a kind of lackadaisical positive assertion, where self-esteem can be conjured out of thin air simply by the people around you saying it's so.

Note the careful wording of Ipso's ruling: while the Star's version of the magazine's claims "had not contained a positive assertion of their truth, there was no suggestion that there was reason to doubt their veracity".

Whether it is whistling a happy tune or vocalizing, the act of making music is a positive assertion of willpower with communal reverberations that can change the energy in a room, which is exactly what Ms. Ben-Daccomplishedished.