checkedint call removal

Chris Cain via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Aug 1 15:26:13 PDT 2014


On Friday, 1 August 2014 at 22:17:15 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> "contradictory assertions"
>
> "To what degree of certitude must the assertion be supported?"
>
> etc.
>
> I'll not go into more details because I actually intend not to 
> participate again in heated debate after already having shown 
> strong evidence.

Frankly, I don't understand the point you're trying to make, so 
it's not really possible to rebut it.

If your point is that assertions need to have evidence to be 
assertions, an easy counterproof of this is in your own quote: 
"To what degree of certitude must the assertion be supported?" 
... It wouldn't have been called an assertion in that sentence 
unless it's something that is sure that it had been supported 
sufficiently (it would have been worded more along the lines of 
"To what degree of certitude must the assertion *candidate* be 
supported?")

I think it's clear that the definition of assertion being 
"statement of fact or belief" is compatible with the usage in 
that wikipedia article.

In particular, "contradictory 'statements of fact'" and "To what 
degree of certitude must the 'statements of fact' be supported?" 
you suggested as examples of incompatibility actually make 
perfect sense.


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