Commentary vs Assertion - What's the difference?
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A series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work.
A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War.
An oral description of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs.
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.
Commentary is a related term of assertion.
As nouns the difference between commentary and assertion
is that commentary is a series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work while assertion is the act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.commentary
Noun
(commentaries)- This letter . . . was published by him with a severe commentary . -(Henry Hallam).
