assertorial

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl

Adjective

assertorial (comparative more assertorial, superlative most assertorial)

1. That makes an assertion or positive statement; declaratory.
   • 2012, Richard Mattessich, Instrumental Reasoning and Systems Methodology, page 45:

     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.

   • 2017, Xinli Wang, Incommensurability and Cross-Language Communication:

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

   • 2019, Kai Nielsen, After The Demise Of The Tradition:

     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.

Derived terms

• assertorially

See also

• apodeictical
• problematical

References

• “assertorial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.