constatation

plural constatations

1. countableuncountableThe process of verification.
2. countableuncountableAn assertion; a proposition assumed for the sake of argument, an axiom.

   To ascertain those conventions, it is important to see how some of the tensions between natural law and positive law (between constatation and declaration) manifest themselves textually.

   2007, Joseph Slaughter, Human Rights, Inc: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law, page 65

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   In Q₂, he marks his departure from alternative constatation of fact (“Either love has put eyes in my head that have not true sight, or they see truly, but my judgment is amiss”) to social speculation by avoiding the see of visual perception in favor of the words eyes dote and love's eye, which clearly denote not simple perception but biased judgement.

   1997, Helen H. Vendler, The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets, page 626

   From that constatation which is similar to the constatation that the human rights system expresses the views of the dominant group, Kymlicka concludes the need for cultural accommodation.

   2001, Eva Brems, Human Rights: Universality and Diversity, page 334