Sentence examples for the assertion itself from inspiring English sources
noun
The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.
- You're a man of strong assertions!
The assertion itself is untranslatable to another culture.
While the corollary of Ms. Rivers's assertion is golden — i.e., Don't pick on little people — the assertion itself may lead to awkwardness, given that the most wealthy and famous people we know are often the most thin-skinned.
The tension, I think, stems less from the assertion itself than from its divergence, so early in the set, from what has become the standard posture — or, at least, the standard male posture — in standup comedy: a bearing of disinterested self-effacement, allowing space to lecture here or there, maybe even at length, but always with a caveat: What do I know?
But Jungck [24] proved that the assertion itself is true.
Once the rule is in force, an utterance with the relevant assertion-indicating device creates the undertaking, and thereby also the assertion itself.
(An assertion in the proof of Theorem 2.1 given in [4] was based on a Proposition of Holmes [3], which was later shown by Jungck [7] to be false. However, as Jungck also proved in [7], the assertion itself is true. Hence, the proof given in [4], with minor changes, is true).
Those preferences may then be explained by wholly external factors, for instance by appeal to social psychology, or the desire for knowledge, but is not internal to the idea of assertion itself.
For assertion itself, the standard is invariant, it is simply knowledge.
By contrast, in the literature on norms of assertion itself, (as is evident from the presentation above) authors disagree widely about what the norm is, and they appeal to both intuition and linguistic arguments to support their own view.
Even line itself, the assertion of a contour, however nuanced and optical the shadings within, is as fictional as a quotation mark.
Indie could be difficult and challenging; it did not shy away from politics (the assertion of independence was itself a political statement); it was not for all, but for those who chose to be indie, it was a way of life, of self-definition.
