Plato is standardly understood as explaining false belief (doxa) in terms of the assertion of a false statement (logos).
"We are seeing the government trying to roll back the space that has opened up in the last 10 years, particularly in terms of the assertion of rights.
I was worried about things not being strong enough in terms of the assertions being made".
Trump himself, in his first recorded comments following the Nunes briefing, likewise said he felt at least "somewhat" vindicated in terms of his assertions about Obama's alleged wiretapping of Trump tower by what Nunes had to say.
As we shall see, later MacFarlane restates the idea in terms of norms of assertion, but then too, the idea of retraction of an assertion is central.
The problem of presupposition projection, for our language of programs with error abortion, is to express the presupposition of π in terms of presuppositions and assertions of its components.
The incident in Hyderabad exposed the inability of religious nationalism to come to terms with an assertion of the Dalit identity, and in the weeks after Vemula's suicide, Modi's government found its approach toward both academic freedom and minority rights challenged vociferously.
Another idea for characterizing assertion in terms of truth-related attitudes is that assertion aims at truth.
In pragmatic terms, the assertion of one subcontrary (Some men are bald) is not only compatible with, but actually conversationally implicates, the other (Some men are not bald), given Grice's Maxim of Quantity ("Make your contribution as informative as is required"; see the entries on Paul Grice, pragmatics, and implicature).
In general, an account of assertion in terms of norms is an account that invokes the existence, or the being in force, of norms that uniquely govern assertions.
Note that these explanations are not in terms of proof conditions, but of assertion conditions.
