Yours truly asserted that it was not a sustainable winning formula.
Thus designating terms behave as they did before, but nothing can be truly asserted about non-designating terms.
Thus, Putnam concludes, 'I am a BIV' cannot be truly asserted by anyone, much like 'I do not exist' or 'I cannot construct a meaningful sentence' (cf. Bardon 2005).
If, for example, event e1 is earlier than event e2 at some time or other, then one may truly assert that e1 is earlier than e2 at all times.
While there are many ways to motivate Meinongianism, a primary motivation is the puzzle of negative singular existentials sentences that seem to truly assert the nonexistence of an individual, such as the sentence 'Jean-Baptiste Botul does not exist'.
The Council of Ephesus (431), basing its arguments on the unity of the person of Christ, anathematized all who denied that Christ was truly divine, and asserted that Mary was truly the mother of God.
For example, the Polish mereologist, in certain contexts, might be able to speak truly in asserting 'any objects compose a further object', whereas an assertion of the negation of this sentence might true in different contexts.
In the story's famous ending, the author, after commenting that none of his characters are truly heroic, asserts that the hero of my story whom I love with all the power of my soul…who was, is, and ever will be beautiful is the truth.
Indeed, all parties agree that figurative language can fail to be ontologically committing; one can assert, truly, that she has butterflies in her stomach without thereby being committed to the existence of butterflies.
Yet the argument is quite false.To create a truly single market, it is asserted, companies across Europe must be able to compete on an equal basis.
To the Editor: Regarding "Bonbons in Brussels" (Letters, Dec. 26) in which Michael Reichman asserted that Brussels was "truly the greatest of the great chocolate cities" -- not Paris Parisis Chocolatiers Raise the Bar," Dec. 12).
