William Finnegan,New York Times Book Review,30 Mar. 1997 What I have said so far has not been an attempt to support my thesis but merely to explain what it is. Of course, a fuller understanding of anassertationmay convince someone of its truth.— Clifford Williams,The Life of the Mind,...
For such a thesis to go through, one of the following two scenarios should be confirmed. It should either be true that Wittgenstein reduces all meaning-engendering uses and conditions of use to assertion and assertability conditions, or that he invokes assertability conditions to show that ...
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circa 1535, in the meaning defined above Time Traveler The first known use of assertation was circa 1535 See more words from the same year The Ultimate Dictionary Awaits Expand your vocabulary and dive deeper into language with Merriam-Webster Unabridged. Expanded definitions Detailed etymologies...