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assertorily

assertorily adverb: in an assertory manner.

Adverb

assertorily (not comparable)

  1. In an assertory manner
    • Given that a speaker who successfully and felicitously assertorily utters a sentence S aims at representing the actual world as a world with respect to which S is evaluated as true (Searle and Vanderveken 1985 ), and given that, as pointed out in Sect.2007 November 27, Stefano Predelli, “Towards a semantics for biscuit conditionals”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 3, →DOI

Origin of assertorily

From assertory + -ly.

Questions about assertorily

What does assertorily mean?
Assertorily means in an assertory manner.
What part of speech is assertorily?
Assertorily is an adverb.

Words near assertorily in the dictionary

  1. assertorial
  2. assertorially
  3. assertoric
  4. assertorical
  5. assertorically
  6. assertorily
  7. assertors
  8. assertory
  9. assertress
  10. assertresses
  11. assertrix

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