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  • adjective Not asserted.

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un- +‎ asserted

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Examples

  • And were we, for some reason, to decide to become fictionalists about witches ” so that we carry on calling people “witches” in some kind of unasserted manner ” this also would not constitute a “witch discourse.”

    Moral Anti-Realism Joyce, Richard 2007

  • There is no such thing as an unasserted assumption occurring as a premise of a deduction step, and

    Him 2009

  • Talk of unbelieved beliefs (unjudged judgments, unstated statements, unasserted assertions) is either absurd or simply amounts to talk of unbelieved

    The Correspondence Theory of Truth David, Marian 2009

  • In such cases, unasserted or cancelled claims may provide "probative evidence" that an embodiment is not within the scope of an asserted claim.

    CAFC: Unasserted/Cancelled Claims are "Probative Evidence" of Embodiments Covered Peter Zura 2008

  • In such cases, unasserted or cancelled claims may provide "probative evidence" that an embodiment is not within the scope of an asserted claim.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Peter Zura 2008

  • Instead, courts must recognize that disclosed embodiments may be within the scope of other allowed but unasserted claims.

    CAFC: Unasserted/Cancelled Claims are "Probative Evidence" of Embodiments Covered Peter Zura 2008

  • Instead, courts must recognize that disclosed embodiments may be within the scope of other allowed but unasserted claims.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Peter Zura 2008

  • In (1) it occurs by itself as an assertion; in (2) it occurs unasserted as part of a larger sentence.

    Russell's Moral Philosophy Pigden, Charles 2007

  • Suppose Russell added one or more epicycles to his theory to explain how ˜X is good™ manages to be meaningful in unasserted contexts.

    Russell's Moral Philosophy Pigden, Charles 2007

  • ˜X is good ˜are used by themselves to make an assertion, not the numerous cases in which such sentences occur, unasserted, as components of larger sentences.

    Russell's Moral Philosophy Pigden, Charles 2007

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