A rule base is applied to the text that assigns to each concept an attribute stating that the concept is a positive assertion, a negative assertion or an uncertain assertion.
But that's the nature of a declaration: it is a manifesto, a way forward, sometimes wildly uncertain, an assertion of freedom from fear.
"I don't think it's a partisan issue". Mr. Bloomberg did say he agreed with the president that the Social Security system's future health is uncertain, an assertion with which many Democrats have disagreed.
Some of these weapons have been reported to contain 200 kilograms, about 440 pounds, of explosives, although like many rebel claims about weapons the origins of this assertion are uncertain.
There is no basis, the authors write, for manufacturers to make health claims for lycopene as a food ingredient or a dietary supplement, and they said claims about the effect of tomatoes on prostate, ovarian, gastric and pancreatic cancer should be qualified by noting that such assertions are unlikely, uncertain or lacking in scientific evidence.
One possible solution to this problem is to simplify contextual data, which is fundamentally continuous or uncertain, down to symbolic discrete assertions.
If it is a powerful reassertion of what it means to be Shia in Iraq, it is an assertion that is uncertain of its trajectory and aims; whose dividing lines are class, education and tradition.
It's an extraordinary declaration, asserting that the unknown need not be turned into the known through false divination, or the projection of grim political or ideological narratives; it's a celebration of darkness, willing as that "I think" indicates to be uncertain even about its own assertion.
