Sentence examples for significant assertions from inspiring English sources

By reference to this testability criterion of empirical significance, Carnap and other logical empiricists rejected various doctrines of speculative metaphysics and of theology, not as being false but as making no significant assertions at all.

One of Schopenhauer's most significant assertions is that the four different modes of explanation only run in parallel with each other, and cannot coherently be intermixed.

It is easy to show, by constructing appropriate examples, that in mathematics, some interesting spaces and fascinating results in these spaces are not optimal and that the answers to many basic problems about them are still missing (e.g., statements that we can give in more general spaces, some hypotheses are not significant, assertions are not deep).

In lieu of any evidence, the NYT circulated this obviously significant assertion by quoting what it called "two Western intelligence experts" who "worked for major government spy agencies".

"In lieu of any evidence, The New York Times circulated this obviously significant assertion," he said, by "citing two anonymous sources saying they 'believed' this happened".

"There are few cases in the history of the court system that have a more significant assertion of authority by the government," said Mr. Turley, a civil libertarian who acknowledged being strange bedfellows with the conservative theorists behind the lawsuit.

This renders him incapable of making sense of (what Jones called) significant assertion.

The endorsement of Hamilton's view might seem perverse and, in fact, Jones is critical of his view in her logic primer (1906, 35 6)—but it is necessary if Jones is to retain the view that significant assertion is, at root, the assertion of an identity.

Accordingly, in discussing Jones in relation to Frege and Russell, I will construe The Law of Significant Assertion as a doctrine concerning identity sentences sentences of the form a is b (where a and b are names, demonstratives or descriptions and is functions accordingly as the is of identity, not predication)—and not as a claim about subject-predicate sentences generally.

Still, while the Law of Significant Assertion cannot be true in its full generality it is implausible for many of the sentence forms she considers and fails to apply to numerous forms she fails to consider a restriction of the law to identity sentences is worth considering.

The most significant assertion of Indian involvement was made during a meeting of the non-aligned states in Sharlm-el-sheikh in 2009.