Sentence examples for proper assertion from inspiring English sources

Fortunately, as Tisdall also notes, respectable people on the right have backed the president's proper assertion of his authority.

Further, in Marchetti we did not hold that the Government is constitutionally forbidden to direct the filing of the form, but only that a proper assertion of the constitutional privilege bars prosecution for failure to comply with the direction.

Stanley also criticizes DeRose, despite accepting that the standards of proper assertion vary between contexts.

When does an intuition track the intended notion of a proper assertion, and when something else altogether?

According to Stanley, the varying standards of proper assertion depends on the context dependence of 'certain', not on any context dependence of 'know' (which Stanley rejects).

Some authors who note that standards of proper assertion appears to vary between context suggest that there is not a single norm with a contextual parameter, but rather that different norms apply in different contexts, still governing one and the same speech act type, assertion.

Similarly, Adler (2002: 235, 275) distinguishes between proper assertions, requiring knowledge, and warranted assertions, requiring full belief.

According to Matt Weiner (2005), for instance, the knowledge rule is too strong, and the cases which motivate it can be handled assuming the rule that proper assertions be true, along with conversational norms governing all speech acts.

Clearly, it is the epistemic aspects of assertions that have been the concern in the literature when characterizing assertions as "correct", "justified", "proper", "warranted", "assertible", or "warrantedly assertible".

There is in fact a notion of truth the minimal notion defined by the equivalence schema It is true that p if and only if p which is guaranteed to apply to statements of any kind for which there are standards of proper or correct assertion (see semantics: Meaning and truth).

For Recanati, the communicative intention is what brings this act under the category of assertion proper (see section 3.1).