What is "assertions"

Usage examples of "assertions".

It has been described as the doctrine that science knows or will soon know all the answers and has been said to judge disbelief in its own assertions as a sign of ignorance or stupidity.

Thus, the doctrine is presented as being the only viable source of solutions to all the major problems of humanity, and the appropriate response on the part of true believers is to accept its assertions without question and to follow its dictates in a spirit of submission and obedience.

Without introducing any rational or empirical evidence, he dispensed with the preternatural realm altogether, declared that God was ineffectual in nature, and decreed that religious convictions, unlike scientific assertions, were solely matters of belief.

Putnam proposes, we are then presented with the challenge of placing specific assertions within a corresponding spectrum of subjectivity and objectivity.

Finally, some assertions may be true for all conscious beings, without reference to their kinds of sensory faculties, modes of cognition, or their locations in space or time.

Over the past four hundred years, physics has repeatedly progressed from assumptions of asymmetry to principles of symmetry and from assertions of absolute entities to relative events.

This is all the more surprising in light of his previously mentioned assertions that the ontology of the mental is an irreducibly first-person ontology and that mental states exist only as subjective, first-person phenomena.

The principles of scientific materialism presented in the abstract might seem nothing more than innocuous metaphysical assertions, but when they are introduced into human existence with the authority of scientific knowledge, their implications are anything but innocuous.

Although this worldview is commonly presented as thoroughly scientific in nature, none of these assertions have been verified by empirical evidence.

Even if proponents of a religion are reasonably sure that their beliefs are true, and even if they think there are valid and conclusive arguments for their validity, their religious assertions still cannot be taken as informative utterances.

They are not in a position to tell their listeners what is the case, and their audience is not compelled to accept their assertions as being true.

But liberals will never abandon their provably false assertions about Soviet spies.

On the whole, modern research has confirmed their assertions in striking manner, and it is in great part upon their piecemeal accumulation of facts that the present interpretation is based.

Hence, mingled with his most direct assertions we find hesitations, devi-ousness, and reservations which a more conventional mind would not evince.