Commentators nowadays refer to these, respectively, as the omissive and commissive versions of Moore's Paradox, a distinction according to the scope of the negation in the apparent assertion of a lack of belief (' I don't believe that p ') or belief that NOT-P.

Raymond E. Brown states that the story of Pantera is a fanciful explanation of the birth of Jesus which includes very little historical evidence-Brown's analysis does not presuppose the doctrine of the " virgin birth ," but cites the lack of historical evidence for Celsus ' assertion.

Despite the lack of documentary evidence, and the lack of contemporary reference, other authors have repeated Bush's assertion that Alfred and Mabel married, including John van der Kiste and Bee Jordaan in Dearest Affie, and the assertion is repeated as fact in the official family history ( Das Haus von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha ).

Some sources describe him as a Muslim, leading some scholars to speculate that he was from Senegal, Mali, or Guinea, though this assertion is tenuous given the lack of biographical information from this era, and is highly contested.

Contrary to Asbury's assertion, there is no evidence of an organized gang called Plug Uglies operating in New York ( see discussion page for this entry for a fuller description of this lack of evidence ).

Some concern has been raised over the library's assertion of usage and distribution control rights over the images it hosts, despite the lack of copyright status on the images due to expiration: " As the physical rights holder of this material, most of which is in the public domain for copyright purposes, the Library charges a usage fee to license an image for commercial use ...

" They concluded that, contrary to Van Howe's assertion, the evidence that lack of circumcision increases the risk of HIV " appears compelling ".

In the majority opinion, Judge Sentelle found Abrams ' assertion that a First Amendment privilege protects Matthew Cooper and Judith Miller from the subpoena to lack merit.

The value of labour power is thus a historical norm, which is the outcome of a combination of factors: productivity ; the supply and demand for labour ; the assertion of human needs ; the costs of acquiring skills ; state laws stipulating minimum or maximum wages, the balance of power between social classes, etc.

One example of this was his assertion that `` all servile revolts must be dealt with by physical force ''.

Of startling significance, too, is the assertion that it was possible to carry out this program with only a 6 percent attrition rate as compared with a rate of 59 percent reported for a comparable group of families who were receiving help in traditionally operated child guidance services.

If anyone asked us, after we made the remark that the suffering was a bad thing, whether we should think it relevant to what we said to learn that the incident had never occurred and no pain had been suffered at all, we should say that it made all the difference in the world, that what we were asserting to be bad was precisely the suffering we thought had occurred back there, that if this had not occurred, there was nothing left to be bad, and that our assertion was in that case mistaken.

As a first step, Algerian literature was marked by works whose main concern was the assertion of the Algerian national entity, there is the publication of novels as the Algerian trilogy of Mohammed Dib, or even Nedjma of Kateb Yacine novel which is often regarded as a monumental and major work.

In law, an answer was originally a solemn assertion in opposition to someone or something, and thus generally any counter-statement or defense, a reply to a question or response, or objection, or a correct solution of a problem.

The language was later dubbed Enochian, due to Dee's assertion that the Biblical Patriarch Enoch had been the last human ( before Dee and Kelley ) to know the language.

John Ellis explained that “... there is considerable justice in Matthew Cooper's assertion that the panzer divisions were not given the kind of strategic mission that was to characterize authentic armoured blitzkrieg, and were almost always closely subordinated to the various mass infantry armies .”

He was in a unique position to make such a holistic assertion because he had previously compiled a review of biome classification.

Before Pilate on the other hand it was merely the assertion of his royal dignity which gave ground for his condemnation.

However, Chicanos generally do not agree that " chicamo " was ever a word used within the culture, as its assertion is thus far entirely unsubstantiated.

While his assertion was not initially well-received, later intensive field studies of fossil beds lent weight to his claim.

Khrushchev increased the perception of a missile gap when he loudly boasted to the world that the USSR was building missiles " like sausages " whose numbers and capabilities actually were nowhere close to his assertion.

His government has also been condemned for allegedly arming and financing the insurgency in Somalia ; the United States is considering labeling Eritrea a " State Sponsor of Terrorism ," however, many experts on the topic have shied from this assertion, stating that " If there is one country where the fighting of extremists and terrorists was a priority when it mattered, it was Eritrea.

However, Dumas is alone in this assertion, and extant newspaper clippings from only a few days after the duel give a description of his opponent that more accurately applies to one of Galois ' Republican friends, most probably Ernest Duchatelet, who was imprisoned with Galois on the same charges.

One important distinction between the post Constantine I ( reigned 306 AD-312 AD ) emperors and their pagan predecessors was cesaropapism, the assertion that the Emperor ( or other head of state ) is also the head of the Church.

Some of the Syriac terms that Ephrem used to describe his community were later used to describe monastic communities, but the assertion that he was monk is anachronistic.

However, Watson and Crick found fault in her steadfast assertion that, according to her data, a helical structure was not the only possible shape for DNA — so they had a dilemma.

The Gaon affirmed Rabbi Chaim ’ s assertion, and said that he once began to create a person when he was a child, under the age of 13, but during the process he received a sign from Heaven ordering him to desist because of his tender age.

However, this assertion was contradicted by an influential study by Cadbury in 1926, and has since been abandoned ; instead it is now believed this language reflects merely a common Greek education.

Critics of the East German state have claimed that the state's commitment to communism was a hollow and cynical tool Machiavellian in nature, but this assertion has been challenged by studies that have found that the East German leadership was genuinely committed to the advance of scientific knowledge, economic development, and social progress.

In an important assertion of national leadership in this field, he has issued an executive order establishing the President's committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Crime, to be supported and assisted by a Citizens Advisory Council of recognized authorities on juvenile problems.

The evidence for this assertion is still fairly scanty, though excavations at Dun Bharabhat, Lewis, have supported it.

Some people associated with Hoover have supported the assertion of his homosexual tendencies.

Kepler's laws and his analysis of the observations on which they were based, the assertion that the Earth orbited the Sun, proof that the planets ' speeds varied, and use of elliptical orbits rather than circular orbits with epicycles — challenged the long-accepted geocentric models of Aristotle and Ptolemy, and generally supported the heliocentric theory of Nicolaus Copernicus ( although Kepler's ellipses likewise did away with Copernicus's circular orbits and epicycles ).

Re-evaluation by later scientists has supported Marsh's case, and found that Cope's assertion that P. umbrosus was a larger, distinct species were incorrect.

Congress removed Jefferson's assertion that Britain had forced slavery on the colonies, in order to moderate the document and appease persons in Britain who supported the Revolution.

Clive Bell published an appeasement pamphlet ( he later supported the war ), and E. M. Forster wrote an early version of his famous essay “ What I Believe ” with its choice, still shocking for some, of personal relations over patriotism: his quiet assertion in the face of the increasingly totalitarian claims of both left and right that " personal relations ... love and loyalty to an individual can run counter to the claims of the State ".

Michael Johns, writing for The Heritage Foundation's Policy Review magazine, prominently supported Reagan's assertion.

Once she became pharaoh herself, Hatshepsut supported her assertion that she was her father's designated successor with inscriptions on the walls of her mortuary temple:

" This conclusion was supported by his assertion that " It is not within our constitutional tradition to enact laws of this sort.

The assertion that MPB is intended to convey a social message is supported by the fact that the distribution of androgen receptors in the scalp differs between men and women, and older men or women with high androgen levels often exhibit diffuse thinning of hair as opposed to male pattern baldness.

( Historian Snow ( see " Further Reading ") says the gunboat was commanded during World War I by Chester Nimitz, an assertion that is not supported by Nimitz's biographers.

Years later he claimed he had actually supported Haughey, but not everyone accepted this assertion.

This assertion is supported by the fact that in seven of the extant manuscripts of Philobiblon it is ascribed to Holkote in an introductory page, in these or slightly varying terms: Incipit prologus in re philobiblon ricardi dunelmensis episcopi que libri composuit ag.

This caused a certain cooling of relations between the two former allies, although in 2009-by which point both were deceased-Tyndall's widow Valerie was reported to have claimed that Tyndall and Jordan were eventually reconciled, an assertion which is supported by Jordan's account of a meeting between Tyndall and Jordan himself, in 1968, as reported in Martin Walker's book The National Front ( p 77 ).

( Terry Bradshaw's assertion that a special television was rigged up on the sideline so that Swearingen could watch the replay is not supported by other accounts.

Yet somewhat contrary to the evidence, this assertion is not widely supported in psychology.

This supported their assertion that national associations should pay players ' wages whilst on international duty and provide compensation in the case of injuries.

He let it be known that he supported the assertion that government agents deliberately set the complex on fire.

The assertion by Baptist churches that only believers could be Baptized put them at odds not only with the Church of England, but also the Presbyterians and Congregationalists – all of whom supported infant baptism.

To have supported your assertion, you should have proved that the present ministry are unquestionably the best and brightest characters of the kingdom ; and that, if the affections of the colonies have been alienated, if Corsica has been shamefully abandoned, if commerce languishes, if public credit is threatened with a new debt, and your own Manilla ransom most dishonourably given up, it has all been owing to the malice of political writers, who will not suffer the best and brightest characters ( meaning still the present ministry ) to take a single right step, for the honour or interest of the nation.

The first was that he refused to accept the assertion made by Nikita Khrushchev, and supported by many Western leftists, that Stalin and his purges were an aberration from the ideals of the Revolution and were contrary to the principles of Leninism.

As with Desmond the difference in politics is great ( London's political activism started in the Marxist Socialist Labor Party and ended in the Socialist Party ), and mainstream London-scholars have not supported the assertion that Redbeard was London.

This assertion was supported by the relatively low price at which he allowed his controlling stake to be bought.