I think some of it also has to do with stigma and this younger generation wanting to blend in with the mainstream more both in terms of kind of asserting their place in the mainstream.
According to Gould the term is a "deductive intellectual consequence of asserting that natural selection acts as the creative mechanism of evolutionary change".
Although Mr. Chen's predecessor, Lee Teng-hui, antagonized China in the last year of his term by asserting that Taiwan and China ought to negotiate as equals, his party adhered to the National Unification guidelines, which have as their ultimate goal the unification of Taiwan and China.
"It's a symbol that this building is state of the art, and that we are going beyond in terms of quality," he asserted.
It may also be in the sense of a point of origin for the transfer of information: the central dogma of molecular biology, which represents a 1950s reformulation of Weismannism in terms of information theory, asserts that information travels unidirectionally from nucleic acids to protein, and never vice versa.
When you use one of these terms you are asserting your confidence over something you've said or validating what another person has said.
They create a vague sense of anxious coercion, of asserted significance, of the author insisting on his terms and inventions.
Does one argue within the existing terms of the financial mainstream – asserting that fossils fuels are not a prudent investment – or do you attempt to challenge those existing terms, arguing that such investment is simply wrong, regardless of whether it is profitable or not?
Neo-Confucian critics such as Itô Jinsai and Ogyû Sorai objected to characterizations of the mind in terms of "stillness" and "calmness," asserting that those attributes harked back to Buddhism or Daoism, not Confucianism.
In a vague post called "World Leaders on Twitter," Twitter awkwardly sidestepped the controversy over whether Trump's Twitter account violates its terms of service altogether, instead asserting that it doesn't matter if a world leader violates its terms of service — they should have a home on the platform nonetheless.
