The Collaborative International Dictionary
Assertory \As*sert"o*ry\, a. [L. assertorius, fr. asserere.] Affirming; maintaining.
Arguments . . . assertory, not probatory.
--Jer.
Taylor.
An assertory, not a promissory, declaration.
--Bentham.
A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is
known as actual.
--Sir W.
Hamilton.
Wiktionary
a. affirm; maintaining.
Usage examples of "assertory".
Problematical judgments are those in which affirmation or negation are taken as possible (optional) only, while in assertory judgments affirmation or negation is taken as real (true), in apodictic as necessary.
In the example given above, the proposition, there exists a perfect justice, is not made as an assertory, but only as an optional judgment, which may be accepted or not, the consequence only being assertory.
Thus, for instance, in a hypothetical syllogism the antecedens in the major is problematical, in the minor assertory, showing that the proposition conforms to the understanding according to its laws.
The apodictic proposition represents the assertory as determined by these very laws of the understanding, and therefore as asserting a priori, and thus expresses logical necessity.
As in this way everything is arranged step by step in the understanding, inasmuch as we begin with judging problematically, then proceed to an assertory acceptation, and finally maintain our proposition as inseparably united with the understanding, that is as necessary and apodictic, we may be allowed to call these three functions of modality so many varieties or moment of thought.
The assertory judgments of pure reason must (like everything known by reason) be either necessary or nothing at all.