Meaning of assertion in English
(Definition of assertion from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of assertion
assertion
Their system emphasises clean separation between programme parts that allow effective validation and parts that involve assertions (represented as types).
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In what way is it distinct from straightforward assertion?
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Accounts of taking charge and assertions of robust identities tended to dominate the early interviews.
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Most assertions of incomparability involve the relative description of two options.
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This set of results modifies the assertion that oral language is foundational to early reading.
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Such an assertion calls for a corrective effort, one that will most reasonably take place within the old paradigm, which has no matching rival.
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Of part (1), the first four assertions follow at once from the definitions.
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The assertion remains unsupported that most individuals do not care about or do not understand the implications of deciding in advance to refuse life-sustaining treatment.
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And, in this regard, the assertion (p. 67) that a human security approach is less encroaching on national sovereignty really needs greater proof and argumentation.
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Nor is it one where, beyond some sometimes rather crude assertions about the impact of political events on economies, they are always much at home.
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Consequently, dialogue theory for design must be equipped with decision procedures based on rules that allow new assertions and invalidate old deductions.
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Specifially, those beliefs or assertions which are purely expressive, metaphorical, or whose truth value cannot be determined.
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After 1000 ms, the affirmative assertions continued to facilitate affirmative-related terms, but the negated assertions no longer did so.
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This starts out promisingly but unfortunately swiftly descends once again into anecdote and assertion.
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Other reports made similar assertions, but substituted snakes, 'seven to eight feet in length', for the beetles.
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Collocations with assertion
assertion
These are words often used in combination with assertion.
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bold assertion
Many nuances are thus lost in the bold assertion quoted above.
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confident assertion
The fog of uncertainty inhibited confident assertion that his administration was on the right economic course.
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dogmatic assertion
It must be known that there is no objective reason to justify such a dogmatic assertion of complacency.
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belli etme, belirtme, gösterme…
assertion [feminine], affirmation [feminine], assertion…
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bewering…
tvrzení…
fastholden…
pernyataan…
การยืนยัน…
sự khẳng định…
twierdzenie, zapewnienie…
påstående, bedyrande…
penegasan…
die Behauptung…
forsikring [masculine], påstand, standhaftighet…
твердження…
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