assertionn.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [noun]
liberation?a1475
remission?a1475
freeing1492
redeliverya1513
solutiona1513
enfranchising1528
assertion1552
franchising1552
franchisement1562
affranchisement1608
enfranchisementa1616
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Assertion, or libertie, or fredome, Vindiciæ.
a1708 W. Beveridge Private Thoughts Relig. (1709) 124 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. archaic.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > justification > [noun] > vindication
defensiona1425
assertion1532
apology1533
propugnation1575
apologizing1611
propugnating1657
vindication1669
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 661/2 Hys moste famous booke of the assercion of the sacramentes.
1604 W. Stoughton (title) An Assertion for true and Christian Church Policie.
1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 1 Having my minde..halfe diverted in the persuance of some other assertions.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth viii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 195 Flinching from the assertion of his daughter's reputation.
3. Insistance upon a right or claim. Cf. self-assertion n.
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society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun] > claiming as due or right > insistence upon a claim
assertion1660
1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 6 in Justice Vindicated The Kings of England had exercised their jurisdiction in the assertion of their regal power.
1792 J. Almon Anecd. Life W. Pitt (octavo ed.) 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.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §5. 394 The duties..on cloth and sweet wines were an assertion of her right of arbitrary taxation.
4. The action of declaring or positively stating; declaration, affirmation, averment.
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the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [noun]
allegationc1425
allegeancea1430
assertionc1449
predicationc1475
assertationa1535
asseveration1566
avouchment1574
avouching1580
allegement1594
avouchy1631
averment1633
vouchmenta1670
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 411 Ech conclusioun, in to whos fynding and leernyng mannys resoun..withoute assercioun of eny other creature..may come to.
1582 R. Robinson (title) A Learned and True Assertion of the original, Life, Actes, and death of..Prince Arthure.
a1784 S. Johnson in T. Smollett Wks. (1797) p. cliv 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.
1884 R. W. Church 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 (obsolete): a fundamental principle, an axiom.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > self-evident truth, axiom > [noun]
truth1500
maxim?1530
head assertion1531
maximum1563
maxima1564
axiom1578
self-evident1675
truism1714
postulate1751
the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [noun] > an assertion, affirmation, or positive declaration
protestationc1390
affirmationa1425
affirmativec1450
edipolc1450
protestc1460
assertion1531
asseveration1551
narration1554
asseverance1574
protesting1582
pol1600
vouch1610
vouchee1625
averment1659
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. i. sig. Avv Nowe to conclude my fyrst assertion or argument.
1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale 31 Adding this adsercion of his owne brayne.
1605 E. Sandys Relation State of Relig. sig. C2 So in their Art also they have certain assertions [1629 24: Head Assertions] which as indemonstrable principles they vrge all men to receive & hold.
1798 J. Ferriar Illustr. Sterne 196 Authors have believed assertions without enquiry.
1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. vi. 120 A sweeping, unqualified assertion ends all controversy.
Compounds
assertion-sign n. 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.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > [noun] > affirmation or predication > signs and symbols
A1551
I1552
assertion-sign1906
1903 B. Russell Princ. Math. §477 The sign of judgment (Urtheilstrich) does not combine with other signs to denote an object.]
1906 B. Russell in Amer. Jrnl. Math. 28 160 I have adopted from him [sc. Frege] the assertion-sign.
1906 B. Russell in Amer. Jrnl. Math. 28 161 The sign ‘⊦’ is called the assertion-sign; it may be read ‘it is true that’ (although philosophically this is not what it means).
1910 A. N. Whitehead & B. Russell Principia Mathematica I. 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.
1922 C. K. Ogden et al. tr. L. Wittgenstein Tractatus 4. 442 Frege's assertion sign ‘⊦’ is logically altogether meaningless.
1947 H. 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.
1953 G. E. M. Anscombe tr. L. Wittgenstein Philos. Investig. i. §22 Frege's assertion sign marks the beginning of the sentence. Thus its function is like that of the full-stop.
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