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assertable .
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Other ideas like 5 + 11 = 17 are assertible or sayable but unprovable.
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The inference is assertible regardless of naturalism's blank cheques.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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The inference is assertible regardless of naturalism's blank cheques.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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The inference is assertible regardless of naturalism's blank cheques.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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The question is not what "the Constitution means" in some completely abstract semantic sense, but, rather, what is "warrentedly assertible," as a pragmatic reality, in our present legal culture.
Balkinization 2007
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The question is not what "the Constitution means" in some completely abstract semantic sense, but, rather, what is "warrentedly assertible," as a pragmatic reality, in our present legal culture.
Balkinization 2007
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That is, ˜X is right ˜is assertible (roughly, a sensible thing to say) when X can be expected to lead to the best results.
Russell's Moral Philosophy Pigden, Charles 2007
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It has also been claimed that vague predicates, when applied to gray-area objects, result in sentences neither true nor false; yet, again, such sentences seem assertible and believable.
Moral Anti-Realism Joyce, Richard 2007
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A sentence holds (or is assertible) in a many-valued interpretation just if it takes a designated value.
Sorites Paradox Hyde, Dominic 2005
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Apparently the King either has a right, assertible as such to the death, before God and man; or else he has no right.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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