He rejected the claim to such authority, whether asserted on "the aristocratic principle" or on behalf of "the community".
The minimalist non-cognitivist can then attempt to avoid Geach's charge of equivocation by suggesting that the minimal truth condition is the meaning of normative predications whether asserted or embedded.
Whether he's asserting his non-girlie-boy bona fides by riding a Harley onto Jay Leno's set, "reporting for duty" at the Democratic convention or hunting geese in Ohio, he comes off like a second-rung James Brolin auditioning for a Levitra ad.
For starters, we were interested in asserting whether the characteristics observed on the whole OpenPGP WoT [11] repeated in the subset of it represented by the Debian keyrings.
While surely Irigaray is a champion of pluralism, i.e. the dismissal of "a view from nowhere," the question remains whether or not asserting sexual difference really is the difference from which all others spring.
Still, whether to assert their identity or protect themselves, Mexican gangs have taken root in the schools, they said.
Whether to assert the privilege is a difficult choice because of the potential for losing one's position in the government for not being cooperative in an investigation.
Judge Prost criticized the majority for failing to inquire whether the asserted claims included an "inventive concept" and improperly devising a new approach to evaluate patent eligiblity, i.e. a "manifestly evident" approach.
The Court then focused on deciding whether the asserted claims captured no more than an abstract idea that is, "nothing more than a fundamental truth or disembodied concept without any limitation in the claims tying that idea to a specific application".
Whether one asserts or merely suggests, promises or merely indicates an intention, persuades or merely argues, depends not only on the literal meaning of one's words, but what one intends to do with them, and the institutional and social setting in which the linguistic activity occurs.
