But Ms. Hempel's tendency to suggest precisely the opposite of what she actually wished, in the vague and automatic hope of pleasing someone, asserted itself.
"If someone asserts that this is a graveyard for television anchors — well we're proud of that, because we think they bring incredible value," Mr. Jacobson said.
A plot is hatched by another character to rescue the country from crisis: is she simply a schemer or someone asserting a person's right not to be thought plastic because she is pretty?
So the next time you hear someone asserting that scientists aren't critical, of their own work or that of their colleagues, remember that if a finding has made its way into a reputable journal, it's most likely despite every last objection that the researcher and all of his lab-mates could come up with – to say nothing of those nasty peer reviewers.
If someone asserts that Fluffy and Spike are "the same dog" and denies that they're both dogs, and that they're one and the same, we have no idea what this person is asserting.
(This purely verbal disagreement can arise whenever someone asserts that the doctrine that all should equally have X or receive X treatment is an egalitarian and someone else denies that this X theory is genuinely egalitarian).
If someone asserts that Aristotle was the greatest philosopher ever, I can either accept or reject this statement, and when I say "yes" or "no" to the question, whether this proposition is true, I am responding to the question.
Often, when someone asserts that A supervenes on B, she also wants to say that A-properties ontologically depend upon B-properties regardless of whether or not they are entailed B-properties regardless cofnt as a further ontological commitment.
If someone asserts of a subject a predicate ascribing to it something that is (the case) about it (an action the thing is actually performing or an attribute it actually has), the statement is true; whereas if he asserts of it a predicate ascribing something that is not (the case) about it (something different from what is the case about it), then the statement is false (Sophist 263b).
Not surprisingly, at dinner someone asserted that George W. Bush was the "worst" president in American history.
