In a place with too much history and too much certainty, a "lonely rock in a stormy ocean", he manages to reach conclusions without lapsing into narrow judgments, and finds truth without asserting that it is the only truth.Inevitably, perhaps, his vision clouds slightly as he draws near to the present day.
Emotivists suggest that moral sentences express or evoke non-cognitive attitudes towards various objects without asserting that the speaker has those attitudes.
This allows them to feel independent without having to assert that independence.
We assert that right without the sanction of any international body.
He asserts that sport without black people is just a game and that you can't boast: "I won the marathon but there were no Kenyans in it".
The reason is that it is a plausible condition of sincere assertion that a person who asserts that p believe that p; but one could certainly assert that p without believing that p. Analogously, a speaker who utters 'Hurrah' intuitively expresses enthusiasm, since it is a plausible condition of sincere expression that a person who utters 'Hurrah!' be enthusiastic.
Over all, "African Forms" asserts that with or without a specific word for art, few African peoples neglected the expressive opportunities implicit in the creation of handmade objects, no matter how basic.
In An Introduction to Africana Philosophy Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy (2008), Gordon asserts that Cooper, "is without question the most sophisticated thinker on what is known today as black feminist thought from the late nineteenth century into the early twentieth century" (Gordon 2008, 71).
In short, he claimed victory, without quite asserting that he was now the president-elect.
I have yet to see homophobes across the African continent answer this question without simply asserting that it is so.
In their brilliant and highly readable "Interpretive Essay" Bartlett and Collins suggest, without positively asserting, that Aristotle offers a solution to the problem, or crisis, of human well-being.
