Sentence examples for what was asserted from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

What is asserted is simply an open sentence!

A sentence is possible only if what is asserted is not always non-actual (I.124-125).

What is asserted is just that both events did take place.

Abelard calls statements propositions (propositio) and what is asserted by a statement its dictum.

Hence, the line of thinking concludes, what is asserted, when one asserts (1), is assertoric content and not ingredient sense.