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Assertion vs Constatation - What's the difference?

assertion | constatation |

As nouns the difference between assertion and constatation

is that assertion is the act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced while constatation is the process of verification.

assertion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.
  • Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives.
  • (computing) A statement in a program asserting a condition expected to be true at a particular point, used in debugging.
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    constatation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of verification.
  • An assertion; a proposition assumed for the sake of argument, an axiom.
  • * 1997 , Helen H. Vendler, The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets , page 626,
  • In Q2, he marks his departure from alternative constatation of fact (“Either love has put eyes in my head that have not true sight'', or they ''see'' truly, but my judgment is amiss”) to social speculation by avoiding the ''see'' of visual perception in favor of the words ''eyes dote'' and ''love's eye , which clearly denote not simple perception but biased judgement.
  • * 2001 , Eva Brems, Human Rights: Universality and Diversity , page 334,
  • From that constatation' which is similar to the ' constatation that the human rights system expresses the views of the dominant group, Kymlicka concludes the need for cultural accommodation.
  • * 2007 , Joseph Slaughter, Human Rights, Inc: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law , page 65,
  • To ascertain those conventions, it is important to see how some of the tensions between natural law and positive law (between constatation and declaration) manifest themselves textually.

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