Assert vs Believe - What's the difference?
assert | believe |
(computer science) an assert statement; a section of source code which tests whether an expected condition is true.
To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
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To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
(computer science) To make true; to make equal to 1. (rfex)
(label) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing)
* 1611 , (King James Version of the Bible), 1:1 :
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, title= (label) To accept that someone is telling the truth.
(label) To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.
As verbs the difference between assert and believe
is that assert is to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively while believe is to accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing.As a noun assert
is an assert statement; a section of source code which tests whether an expected condition is true.assert
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(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.}}
- he would often assert his beliefs to us
- to assert one's authority
- Salman Rushdie has asserted his right ... to be identified as the author of this work
- The quasi-judicial pre-grant process of asserting patent rights and appeals procedures during patent examination; 'to assert' patent rights means to defend or maintain patent rights.
Synonyms
* affirm * asseverate * averExternal links
* * *Anagrams
* * * * *believe
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Alternative forms
* beleeve (obsolete)Verb
(believ)- (Here, the speaker merely accepts the accuracy of the conditional.)
- Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us
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