Standard assertions are not epistemically qualified or 'guarded' (e.g., I am pretty (very) sure that p), but they are the expression of the corresponding all-out (or full) belief (see Toulmin 1958, 85; also, Coady 1992; Fricker 1995, 2004; Graham 1997; Goldberg 2001; Lackey 2008, especially Ch.1; Cullison 2010).
For a man who disdains professional politicians, Mr. Nader has gotten one trick of the trade down pat, the standard assertion that he is "not even thinking" about whether to run next time.
In reality, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration retains full authority to increase fuel economy standards, and assertions that the resolution undercuts government authority ignore the fact that such authority comes only with the consent of the people.
DeRose argued from the knowledge norm and the varying standards for assertion as premises, to the conclusion that epistemic contextualism is true (2002: 182).
One might wish to do this, for example, if one thought that paradigmatic story-telling consisted of utterances that were not truth-apt (not anyway through the same mechanism as ordinary utterances), while claims about, say, ideal gases were better construed as standard sorts of assertions that were literally false.
The standards grounding prescriptive assertions of equality contain at least two components.
Many authors have noted that standards for judging assertions vary between contexts, and have proposed to work that into the account.
Our decision to use DCMI Metadata Terms is motivated by the fact that, today, it is the de facto standard for the assertion of metadata on the Web [34].
To assert standard or statutory self-defense, he must offer some evidence beyond the mere assertion.
Independent of the specification of such a standard, S's u assertion lacks a truth-value much as, by comparison, indexical expressions such as "The barn is nearby" do not get a truth-value independent of contextual facts about the context of use (i.e. the context in which the utterance is made).
Stanley also criticizes DeRose, despite accepting that the standards of proper assertion vary between contexts.
