For example, the assertion that " all swans are white " is falsifiable, because it is logically possible that a swan can be found that is not white.

Thus Kant defines idealism as " the assertion that we can never be certain whether all of our putative outer experience is not mere imagining ".

The only fact that can be adduced in support of the assertion that Grimm wished to deprive Rask of his claims to priority is that he does not expressly mention Rask's results in his second edition.

False dilemma can arise intentionally, when fallacy is used in an attempt to force a choice ( such as, in some contexts, the assertion that " if you are not with us, you are against us ").

Many assume that the “ Mandate for Palestine ” is a Class “ A ” mandate, a common but inaccurate assertion that can be found in many dictionaries and encyclopedias, and is frequently used by the pro-Palestinian media and lately by the ICJ.

He also had difficulty with the assertion that a single subatomic particle can occupy numerous areas of space at one time.

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence is not an assertion that extraterrestrial intelligence exists or are visiting earth, and conflating the two can be seen as a straw man argument.

These variations do not necessarily follow Ramsey in asserting that truth is not a property, but rather can be understood to say that, for instance, the assertion " P " may well involve a substantial truth, and the theorists in this case are minimalizing only the redundancy or prosentence involved in the statement such as " that's true.

The positive assertion of knowledge, either of the existence of gods or the absence of gods, can also be attributed to some theists and some atheists.

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 ".

" The atheist's " plain assertion of the world's existence " is a " grossly impoverished view of reality ," he says, arguing that " theism explains more than a reductionist atheism can ever address.

In contemporary polemics, " dialectics " may also refer to an understanding of how we can or should perceive the world ( epistemology ); an assertion that the nature of the world outside one's perception is interconnected, contradictory, and dynamic ( ontology ); or it can refer to a method of presentation of ideas and conclusions ( discourse ).

In most cases the value is emphasized, like in the assertion " the set of all linear combinations of v < sub > 1 </ sub >,..., v < sub > n </ sub > always forms a subspace "; however one could also say " two different linear combinations can have the same value " in which case the expression must have been meant.

A failure to make a timely assertion of a right to a federal forum can cause a case within federal jurisdiction on its face, to be triable only in state court.

However, neither assertion can be confirmed since the texts, if they existed, have been lost.

Reed's law is the assertion of David P. Reed that the utility of large networks, particularly social networks, can scale exponentially with the size of the network.

From a perch it will walk into the water and deliberately submerge, but there is no truth in the assertion that it can defy the laws of specific gravity and walk along the bottom.

The central assertion of solipsism rests on the nonexistence of such a proof, and strong solipsism ( as opposed to weak solipsism ) asserts that no such proof can be made.

An assertion that Hunab Ku was the high god of the Mayas can be found in Sylvanus Morley's classic book The Ancient Maya ( 1946 ).

The most common assertion given by opponents is that are a form of neocolonialism, where the more developed countries can exploit the less developed countries.

" Creel says the Chinese evidently came to use Rongdi and Manyi " as generalized terms denoting ' non-Chinese ,' ' foreigners ,' ' barbarians '," and a statement such as " the Rong and Di are wolves " ( Zuozhuan, Min 1 ) is " very much like the assertion that many people in many lands will make today, that ' no foreigner can be trusted '.

Ronny, alarmed by his mother's assertion that Aziz is innocent, decides to arrange for her return by ship to England before she can testify to this effect at the trial.

The validity of the assertion that groups flourish when guided by effective leaders can be illustrated using several examples.

Steiner strongly objected and considered any comparison between Krishnamurti and Christ to be nonsense ; many years later, Krishnamurti also repudiated the 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.

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.

However, he also justified the expression he coined — " the map is not the territory " — by saying that " the denial of identification ( as in ' is not ') has opposite neuro-linguistic effects on the brain from the assertion of identity ( as in ' is ').

Led Zeppelin have also been described as " the quintessential purveyors " of masculine and aggressive " cock rock ", although this assertion has been challenged.

Coubertin's assertion that the Games were the impetus for peace was also an exaggeration ; the peace which he spoke of only existed to allow athletes to travel safely to Olympia, and neither prevented the outbreak of wars nor ended ongoing ones.

This distinctiveness is the Clan vodun is also an assertion of identity and origin with cult and worshiping process specific to a family collective.

James's assertion of his authority throughout the realm also extended to the Church and observed that David I's dispersal of lands to the church proved to be costly to royal income and that David was ' a sair sanct to the crown '.

They also may have practiced cannibalism, an assertion vehemently denied by descendants of the people.

As the Tenth Doctor he repeats this assertion, adding also that he is somehow innately able to sense which events in time are ' fixed ' and which are in ' flux '.

The second law is also expressed as the assertion that in an isolated system, entropy never decreases.

There also was ( circa 1995 ) the assertion by one Lotus cc: Mail employee that " Quattro Pro " was taken from the Italian word " quattro ", or number four, thus asserting that it was one better than Lotus 1-2-3.

He also wrote that members of the rabbinical court of Jerusalem confirmed that the man was correct in his understanding of Jewish law, and that they backed this assertion by quoting from a passage from a recent compilation of law.

Velius also rejects the assertion that the name origin Dampter Horn: a neighbourhood of the village Dampten, which flooded and had fallen into disuse.

The particle what, also spelled wat / wot, is used to remind or contradict the listener, especially when strengthening another assertion that follows from the current one:

In an earlier paper Dreman also refuted the assertion by Ray Ball that these higher returns could be attributed to higher beta, whose research had been accepted by efficient market theorists as explaining the anomaly in neat accordance with modern portfolio theory.

Adults may also falsely believe that youth ’ s assertion of independence in exterior aspects of their life represents a manifestation of a different value system.

Many commentators — though by no means all — also hold that Moore's Paradox arises not only at the level of assertion but also at the level of belief.

" John L. Finlay disagrees with Stingel's assertion and argues that, " It must also be noted that while Douglas was critical of some aspects of Jewish thought, Douglas did not seek to discriminate against Jews as a people or race.