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  • In the years since then the assertorical view of literature has grown in my estimation.

    The authority to comment 2009

  • In the assertorical, we regard the proposition as real (true); in the apodeictical, we look on it as necessary.

    Blowing Hot and Cold Coetzee, J.M. 1997

  • In the example above given the proposition, "There exists perfect justice," is not stated assertorically, but as an ad libitum judgement, which someone may choose to adopt, and the consequence alone is assertorical.

    The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

  • In the assertorical, we regard the proposition as real (true); in the apodeictical, we look on it as necessary.

    The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

  • The assertorical speaks of logical reality or truth; as, for example, in a hypothetical syllogism, the antecedens presents itself in a problematical form in the major, in an assertorical form in the minor, and it shows that the proposition is in harmony with the laws of the understanding.

    The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

  • The apodeictical proposition cogitates the assertorical as determined by these very laws of the understanding, consequently as affirming a priori, and in this manner it expresses logical necessity.

    The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

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