ASSERTION

The concept of assertion has a very long traditional position in the philosophy of language, which dates back to Aristotle and Plato who discussed this concept in terms of psychological, epistemic, logical, evidential and propositional assertion. In addition, one of the central doctrines of philosophical perspective about the concept of assertion is that the only philosophically interesting function of language is that of making true or false statements, i.e. assertions. Moreover, this concept has to do with the cognitive ideas of . knowledge, belief and truth wherein a speaker reveals his inner feeling of knowledge, belief or uses language to state - what is to be true.