Sentence examples for what is asserted from inspiring English sources

Recently, John Turri (2013) has published results from a series of survey studies, where the aim was to determine whether speakers accept a factive or a non-factive norm: the norm is factive in case an assertion is proper only if what is asserted is true, otherwise non-factive.

Both MacFarlane (2011) and García-Carpintero (2013) argue that we should distinguish between what is said and what is asserted, and that this allows us to maintain that an indirect assertion that swans are black are made by means of directly saying that the speaker commits himself.

But still, there is something about Puddleglum's answer that represents a noble suspicion of what is asserted as established and uncontestable reality by intellectual elites.

There ends up being no real way to reliably know whether what is asserted as a well-known fact is really a much retold fiction.

The pattern of the consonants is the formal vehicle of the substantive argument, the argument that what is asserted to be different is really, if you look closely, the same.

What is asserted is simply an open sentence!

"What was asserted was that nobody could find Dr. Theodore Kazimiroff Boulevard, which I find hard to believe," Mr. Ultan said.

Since the rise in 2005 of the price of oil, which makes up all but a fraction of the country's revenue, Iran has become more assertive, though it's not wholly clear to me what it is asserting.

There is a difference between the actual camps and the contained villages which adds confusion to exactly what Elkins is asserting.

But as he well knows, it is not so odd within the perspective of current First Amendment rhetoric, which is militantly libertarian, protective of the individual's right of self-assertion no matter what is being asserted, and indifferent (relatively) to the effects speech freely uttered might have on the fabric of society.

Every departure from what has been asserted as "proper" and "fitting" from that very specific standpoint is dismissed as aberrant, and is ridiculed and subordinated.