On Friday, 1 August 2014 at 22:20:02 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
On 08/02/2014 12:07 AM, Chris Cain wrote:
On Friday, 1 August 2014 at 22:05:04 UTC, Daniel Gibson wrote:
Yeah, it seems like assertion doesn't *have* to mean
something like
"promise"
I'd argue that it never really means "promise." ...In a
sense, you "promise" your statements are correct ...
The promise is that your statements are correct, not that your
assertions are the embodiment of the promise itself. I can't make
that more clear and it seems abundantly obvious to me what is
meant by that.
