Though "self-evident" and "universally valid," the proposition asserting this tripartite character of consciousness is, according to Reinhold, not analytic but synthetic.
Every keystroke, however strident, that appears in this essay rests upon a single premise: those who believe in basic human rights should assert them universally, and our failure to do so is at the expense of women and Muslim reformers throughout the world.
In one of Havel's most famous essays, "Politics and Conscience," from 1984, he asserted that dissidents like him, with their "flawed efforts" for freedom, were engaged in a universally necessary endeavor.
The Principle of Consciousness is not a tautology, yet anyone who reflects upon what is asserted by this principle will immediately recognize its truth and universal validity, inasmuch as it expresses what Reinhold called a "universally recognized fact of consciousness".
"From a Cause to a Style" is a collection of essays written from the early 1990s to the present that traces the diminishment of Modernist architecture from a social revolution — which asserted that traditional architecture "had come to an end" — down to a mere style, and one almost universally resented outside the profession.
Gradually, Real Madrid asserted itself.
Then James asserted his authority.
Speed kills, the moralists asserted.
He should have, asserted Cleitophon.
Eventually, however, Southerland asserted himself.
