I remember over 50 years ago reading in Halley's Bible Handbook, which over the years was the most popular "Bible Handbook" reference work in the evangelical world, this very assertion--that Joseph was the engineering genius (with God's help of course!) behind the mysterious construction of the Great Pyramid--the rest of which are cheaper and later imitations.
But there is the circularity, in that very assertion.
Yet in that very assertion is a set of ethical values--of open access to information to benefit society, of rewarding inventiveness, and of basic justice to prevent someone selling your invention without due recompense.
This argument is in line with (Anceschi, 2014: p. 21) conclusion that "pragmatism may be viewed as the essential glue of the entire relationship between the European Union and Kazakhstan", a statement which, however, seems to necessitate further specification, for the very assertion that Astana pursues a pragmatic foreign policy20 may be interpreted in multiple ways.
Although just a few months ago, Senator Rand Paul did again make that very assertion.
The persistence of these protesters' actions in the face of what seemed to be a strong case for Stoli not being Russian has been puzzling and leads one to question that very assertion.
At Sewanee, he found himself regularly obliged to proclaim some of the very assertions he questioned.
Ironically however, through its very assertion, formation, and attempts to validate these non-stereotypical metaphors, alternative accounting thought itself tends toward the same sort of epistemic fixation and effacement it seeks to subvert.
As I discuss in my newspaper column out today, Wright has become the latest target of the media lynch mob - and in becoming that target, he has proven his very assertions about the persistence of racism in our culture.
Might we discover "illocutionary tautologies", "illocutionary absurdities" and other phenomena that could shed light on such utterances as "This very utterance is an assertion", "I doubt this very claim"?
Newton's major philosophical innovation rested, however, in challenging this very epistemological foundation, and the assertion and defense of Newton's position against its many critics, not least by Voltaire, became arguably the central dynamic of philosophical change in the first half of the eighteenth century.
