A great many statistics fly by in the movie -- such as assertions that 6percentto7percentcent of the United States is owned by Saudi Arabians, and that Saudi companies have paid more than $1.4 billion to Bush family interests.
Speech acts such as assertions and predictions have word-to-world direction of fit, while speech acts such as commands have world-to-word direction of fit.
But some theorists instead describe indexicality in terms of expressions varying in reference or content relative to utterances or other sorts of speech acts, such as assertions.
The former can be signalled by various in-turn design features such as assertions of ownership, possessive pronouns and a range of justifications which point to various ownership rights.
In addition to the layoff of Icos employees, other aspects of the acquisition were equally controversial, such as assertions that Icos was being sold too cheaply and that conflicts of interest existed.
Despite the lack of objectivity in a more ordinary sense, such a semantics is typically coupled with treating utterances of sentences such as as assertions (cf. Kölbel 2004: 71; Lasersohn 2005; Egan 2012; MacFarlane 2014: Chpt. 7).
To document the evidence for a scientific conclusion (such as the assertion that 'this protein has function x'), the assertion must be linked to an appropriate term that describes the evidence supporting the conclusion (such as 'enzymatic assay').
Luther repeatedly denied the charge but then noted that some of Hus's opinions, such as his assertion that there is one holy Catholic Church, were not heretical.
He became known for the short, aphoristic sayings contained within the four slim volumes of poetry he published in his lifetime, such as the assertion that "Sexual intercourse began/In nineteen sixty-three".
It tends to draw on conspiracy theories – such as the assertion that Renzi's push for a constitutional referendum was a capitalist plot hatched by US banks, and that Americans never really landed on the moon.
