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assertion|əˈsɜːʃən|
Also 6 ads-, assercion.
[(? a. F. assertion, 14th c. in Littré), ad. L. assertiōn-em, n. of action f. asser-ĕre to assert; see -ion1.]
†1. The action of setting free, liberation. Obs.
1552Huloet, Assertion, or libertie, or fredome, Vindiciæ. a1707Beveridge Priv. Th. i. (1730) 67 Redemption from the Slavery of Sin, and Assertion into Christian Liberty.
2. The action of maintaining a cause or defending it from hostile attack; vindication. arch.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 661/2 Hys moste famous booke of the assercion of the sacramentes. 1604W. Stoughton (title) An Assertion for true and Christian Church Policie. 1644Milton Educ. Wks. 1738, 135 Having my mind..half diverted in the pursuance of some other assertions. 1828Scott F.M. Perth I. 59 Flinching from the assertion of his daughter's reputation.
3. a. Insistance upon a right or claim.
1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 6 The Kings of England had exercised their jurisdiction in the assertion of their regal power. 1792Anecd. W. Pitt III. xlii. 134 The present bill might be looked upon as a bill of concession..At the same time it was a bill of assertion. 1876Green Short Hist. vii. §5 (1882) 394 The duties..on cloth and sweet wines were an assertion of her right of arbitrary taxation.
b. self-assertion: insistence on a recognition of one's own rights or claims.
1847Ld. Lindsay Chr. Art. I. Introd. 209 The self-assertion of the Teutonic over the classic element of modern Europe. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. ii. (1873) 299 The haughty and defiant self-assertion of Dante.
4. The action of declaring or positively stating; declaration, affirmation, averment.
c1449Pecock Repr. 411 Ech conclusioun, in to whos fynding..mannys resoun..withoute assercioun of eny other creature may come to. 1582R. Robinson (title) Leland's Learned and true Assertion of the Original Life, Actes and Death of..Prince Arthure. a1784Johnsoniana (1836) 399 Assertion is like an arrow shot from a long bow; the force with which it strikes depends on the strength of the arm that draws it. 1884Church Bacon i. 26 To show gross credulity and looseness of assertion on the part of the Roman Catholic advocate.
5. A positive statement; a declaration, averment. † head assertion (obs.): a fundamental principle, an axiom.
1531Elyot Gov. (1875) 8 Nowe to conclude my fyrste assercion or argument. 1535Joye Apol. Tindale 31 Adding this adsercion of his owne brayne. 1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 24 So in their Art also they have certain Head Assertions, which as indemonstrable principles they urge all men to receive and hold. 1798Ferriar Var. Man. in Illustr. Sterne 196 Authors have believed assertions without enquiry. 1822Hazlitt Table-t. II. vi. 120 A sweeping, unqualified assertion ends all controversy.
6. Comb. assertion-sign Logic, the sign introduced by G. Frege in 1879 to indicate that the signs following it express a proposition which is asserted to be a true judgement; the same sign used in related senses; also in extended use of other signs considered equivalent in function.
[1903B. Russell Princ. Math. §477 The sign of judgment (Urtheilstrich) does not combine with other signs to denote an object.] 1906― in Amer. Jrnl. Math. XXVIII. 160, I have adopted from him [sc. Frege] the assertion-sign. Ibid. 161 The sign ‘⊦’ is called the assertion-sign; it may be read ‘it is true that’ (although philosophically this is not what it means). 1910Whitehead & Russell Principia Math. i. 8 The sign ‘⊦’, called the ‘assertion-sign’, means that what follows is asserted. It is required for distinguishing a complete proposition, which we assert, from any subordinate propositions contained in it but not asserted. 1922tr. Wittgenstein's Tractatus 4. 442 Frege's assertion sign ‘⊦’ is logically altogether meaningless. 1947H. Reichenbach Elem. Symbolic Logic vii. 336 In written language the assertion sign is supplied by the period at the end of a sentence, meaning: the writer asserts the sentence. 1953G. E. M. Anscombe tr. Wittgenstein's Philos. Investig. i. §22 Frege's assertion sign marks the beginning of the sentence. Thus its function is like that of the full-stop. |