Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Asserting a fact as true, but not holding it to be necessary. See
assertory , the common form.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Asserting that a thing
is ; -- opposed toproblematical andapodeictical .
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- adjective
Asserting that a thing is.
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Examples
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In the first case it is a problematical, in the second an assertorial practical principle.
SECOND SECTION 1785
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The hypothetical imperative which expresses the practical necessity of an action as means to the advancement of happiness is assertorial.
SECOND SECTION 1785
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In the first case it is a problematical, in the second an assertorial practical principle.
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals Immanuel Kant 1764
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The hypothetical imperative which expresses the practical necessity of an action as means to the advancement of happiness is assertorial.
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals Immanuel Kant 1764
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We have here only to do with the distinction of imperatives into problematical, assertorial, and apodeictic.
The Critique of Practical Reason Immanuel Kant 1764
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Paul gets at veridiction with his talk of "the word of faith" being in your mouth and heart - later Christianity bastardizes this by turning faith into an assertorial rather than veridictive reality.
An und für sich 2009
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Paul gets at veridiction with his talk of "the word of faith" being in your mouth and heart - later Christianity bastardizes this by turning faith into an assertorial rather than veridictive reality.
An und für sich 2009
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November 26, 2010