With comparable drollery, I was informed, gently, that the SNP would not be asserting UDI today.
Ignoring the issue as to its ability to obtain accurate answers, the PCC did not ask the right questions to discover the true extent of the practice of phone hacking, or whether it was more widespread than had previously emerged; neither did it pay sufficient attention to evidence which suggested that what was being asserted was not the full picture.
Newton, in his controversial Scholium on space, time, and motion, was not merely asserting that motion is absolute in the face of the mechanists' relativist view; he was arguing that a conception of absolute motion was already implicit in the views of his opponents that it was implicit in their conception, which he largely shared, of physical cause and effect.
This is not a hoax as is asserted in the document.
So, as in the Larson and Segal analysis, the uniqueness claim is not part of what is asserted.
In saying that copper is a metal, or that the sum of the internal angles of a triangle is equal to two right angles, there is no implicit contrast to a time when what is asserted was not true or false.
What is common to all ideas is that indirect assertions are not explicit: what is expressed, or literally said, is not the same as what is asserted.
Similarly, when we assert "that house is not red" we are asserting a state of affairs we have apprehended, namely, the not being red of the house.
For that is tantamount to the suggestion that (actual) Berzelius (the discoverer of the correct chemical formula for water) was not entitled to assert that water is H2O until he had ruled out the possibility of some substance other than H2O sharing water's manifest qualities.
Walsh later clarified her comments, saying she was not asserting House members are drinking during hearings or before votes.
