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assertion
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Assertion \As*ser"tion\, n. [L. assertio, fr. asserere.]
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The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.
There is a difference between assertion and demonstration.
--Macaulay. Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., assercioun, from Middle French assertion (14c.) or directly from Late Latin assertionem (nominative assertio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin asserere "claim rights over something, state, maintain, affirm," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + serere "join" (see series). By "joining oneself" to a particular view, one "claimed" or "maintained" it.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced. 2 Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives. 3 (context computing English) A statement in a program asserting a condition expected to be true at a particular point, used in debugging.
WordNet
n. a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) [syn: averment, asseveration]
the act of affirming or asserting or stating something [syn: affirmation, statement]
Wikipedia
In computer programming, an assertion is a statement that a predicate ( Boolean-valued function, a true–false expression) is expected to always be true at that point in the code. If an assertion evaluates to false at run time, an assertion failure results, which typically causes the program to crash, or to throw an assertion exception.
Assertion or assert may refer to:
Usage examples of "assertion".
No longer ago than yesterday, in one of the most widely circulated papers of this city, there was published an assertion that the mortality in several Homoeopathic Hospitals was not quite five in a hundred, whereas, in what are called by the writer Allopathic Hospitals, it is said to be eleven in a hundred.
Berlin, the greatest anatomist and physiologist among my contemporaries, had barely affirmed he had seen a live centaur, I should certainly have been staggered by the weight of an assertion coming from such an authority.
His glance, more penetrating than his bistouries, looked straight into your soul, and dissected every lie athwart all assertions and all reticences.
An experimenter, for example, makes an assertion regarding the absolute painlessness of his vivisections.
Robert Boyle, too, strongly advocated the biblical assertion that humans are made in the image of God, not nature, and this undermined the organic model of nature, which drew analogies between microcosm and macrocosm and between humans and the rest of creation.
Miss Margland, though to the Baronet she would not recede from her first assertions, strove vainly to palliate to herself the ill grace and evident dissatisfaction with which Edgar had met the report.
In this assertion we encounter a misconception exactly like the one in the statement that the theorem of the parallelogram of forces follows by logical necessity from the theorem of the parallelogram of velocities.
With this assertion, slipped into a participial phrase, the case is supposed to be proved!
By these means alone do we judge the extent of suffering in the land, and, not hearing of many cases of penury, or receiving many applications for assistance, we believe that the assertions of great want being among the people are untrue, and we purposely avoid searching for the truth of such assertions.
It appears, however, that about forty years afterwards the emperor Valerian was persuaded of the truth of this assertion, since in one of his rescripts he evidently supposes, that senators, Roman knights, and ladies of quality, were engaged in the Christian sect.
Lord Jesus Christ is in this land, I do not therefore, base my assertion upon the fact, that there are 135,667 ministers in it, and 187,075 churches, and 26,100,884 professing Christians.
Zofal and Siril were genuinely hurt by my assertions and said so at great length, while Yibor and Rosil agreed loudly that though our side of the family was weak no one had actually gone insane before.
Thrale, an assertion which Johnson was strenuously about to dispute when he was approached by the Subchanter of the Cathedral, a sober gentleman who miraculously made no reference to a schoolyard encounter and merely evinced a knowledge of his reputation.
So on, assertion, rejoinder, surrejoinder, and rebuttal, till the dispassionate philosopher in the pillows wearied of his conceit and directed his thoughts toward breakfast.
Blank-faced, he poured out streams of denials in his own defenseadding assertions about the rectitude of Senor Dalban and the unlikelihood of his doing any such thing as I accused him of.