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To support an assertion, we cite a fa for the term we are asserting and then show that the thing we are asserting it of is relevantly similar to the fa.
But there's no evidence at all that would support an assertion that we're not facing serious risk at this point".
Gordon Hughes, formerly of the World Bank and now an economist at the University of Edinburgh, surveyed the landscape and concluded: "There are no sound economic arguments to support an assertion that green energy policies will increase the total level of employment in the medium or longer term when we hold macroeconomic conditions constant".
"In the case of the above individual, the board reached the conclusion that there was no evidence to doubt that the person was a civilian status, and there was no evidence to support an assertion that he had committed a belligerent act against coalition forces," said the document, signed by Col. Alan Ecke, the camp commander.
Functionally, an "explanation" is roughly analogous to an argument, or, more precisely, to the premises of an argument, in that it serves to support an assertion by giving reasons.
The first, the 'evidence' axis, captures the type of evidence that is derived from an inquiry and that is used to support an assertion.
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Thus argumentation or disputation the process of supporting an assertion by citing other, established claims is typically seen as a process of distinguishing whether two things are or are not "the same" or whether something belongs to a certain kind.
When all evidence lines supporting an assertion are congruent, the assertion should be trusted with higher confidence than when some evidence lines are conflicting.
When supporting an assertion in writing, it usually suffices to cite the entirety of a journal article and leave it to the inquisitive reader to find the relevant passage.
In PATRIC, data collected from publications include the genome and gene, the host organism or cell type and sentences from the original article that supports an assertion of virulence.
Even when it is impossible to provide confidence in each statement, whether because of lack of manpower or because of methodological limitations (e.g. in case of many electronic annotation methods), it is still very relevant to record whether one evidence line or several supported an assertion, whether they were of the same type or not, and whether they were contradictory or consistent.
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