assertorial

comparative more assertorial · superlative most assertorial

1. That makes an assertion or positive statement; declaratory.

   First, a scientific language has assertorial content by making assertorial commitments to the existence of certain theoretical entities.

   2017, Xinli Wang, Incommensurability and Cross-Language Communication

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   Yet in our view the second interpretation is self-contradictory because ultimately assertorial logic should exclude from its arguments non-assertions (e.g. task theses) because no truth values can be assigned to them.

   2012, Richard Mattessich, Instrumental Reasoning and Systems Methodology, page 45

   It is evident that the assertorial function is rock bottom. But Kim claims the assertorial function is not possible unless language has representational functions in some ways.

   2019, Kai Nielsen, After The Demise Of The Tradition