Assertoric

Assertion (from Latin assertio, assertion ) is a term in linguistics and logic. He stands for a particular assertion, insurance, finding. The corresponding adjective is assertoric, so stating or claiming.

Linguistics

The term assertion referred to in linguistics Miscellaneous:

Logic

In logic, the term assertoric sentences ( sentences ) in which something is simply asserted as true or false. In apodictic sentence is, however, claims that something in the problematic sentence that something is necessarily possibly true. It is sometimes also speak of an assertoric logic when a non-modal logic is the speech.

Sentence and judgment

Assertationen provide a basic type of logical propositions dar. assertoric sentence can be seen as another way of expressing declarative sentence, apophantic sentence, logos apophantikos ( Aristotle ), wahrheitsdefiniter sentence or declarative sentence to be understood.

The notion of assertoric sentence goes back to the classical, Aristotelian distinction between meaningful and maintain Direction speech: " Every sentence has a meaning [ semantikós ], but not everyone showing something on [ apophantikos ], but only the one who can be true or false. "

In the scholasticism and of Immanuel Kant sentences were after her to reality and truth -related ( alethischen ) modality divided into:

Assertoric sentences are sentences, " in which asserts something to be true without any addition or is denied ".

S = subject; P = predicate

In the terminology of the theory of judgment of classical logic are assertoric judgments " judgments, in which alleged that the predicate term of the subject term actually belongs or does not belong ( Form: S is P or S is not P)".

Any use of an assertoric sentence, this is affirmative or negative, is an assertion. Sometimes under assertoric sentence is understood only the affirmative declarative sentence ( mis-). " The phrases " p "and" ¬ p " have the opposite sense, but there corresponds to them one and the same reality. "