assertorial

English

Adjective

assertorial (comparative more assertorial, superlative most assertorial)

1. That makes an assertion; 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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “assertorial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)