"Here in Bali, social movements, trade unions and campaign groups have supported the efforts of developing countries to get a deal which moves the agenda away from a pro-corporate charter and towards something that asserts the rights and needs of the majority of the world's population," he said.
In a more theoretical sense, "there is a tyranny about perfection, a certain tedium even, something that asserts itself with all the dogmatism of a scientific formula," which De Button points out to suggest that perfection should not always be the aim.
This psychological awareness further reveals the logical impossibility of any proposition that asserts that something is both true and false at the same time, and the logical impossibility of a proposition that asserts contraries further reveals the ontological fact that something cannot have contrary properties.
In that case, Aristotle implies that any assumption within a science that asserts or denies something is a hypothesis.
For instance, when the Stranger says of Theaetetus, who is currently sitting, "Theaetetus is sitting," his statement is true because it asserts something that is the case about Theaetetus; but when he says of Theaetetus (still sitting), "Theaetetus is flying," his statement is false, because "flying" specifies something different from what is the case about Theaetetus (namely, sitting).
It is tempting to interpret this view as an appeal to a kind of fallacy of composition; just as someone who is both good and an author is not necessarily a good author, so too something that is both mentally asserted and vocally uttered is not necessarily "said" (asserted with utterance).
If you want to destroy public confidence, solemnly asserting something that is obviously untrue is a good way to start.
The win was a tribute to a refreshing app that celebrates the best of what the subway has to offer, instead of asserting something that needs to be fixed.
That was not just a case of hyping intelligence, but of asserting something that had already been flatly discredited by an envoy investigating at the behest of the office of Vice President Dick Cheney.
Demands that Trump apply the term "terrorism" to the Las Vegas shooting or the Charlottesville murder are attempts to assert something that should be obvious: armed white men pose a statistically greater threat to the safety and security of Americans than do Muslims, immigrants, or even Islamic militants.
"However, the legal position is quite clear that whether or not an entity is a data processor (with very limited responsibilities in law) or a data controller (with effectively all responsibilities) is a matter of fact, not something that can merely be asserted in an agreement.
