a. Logic. [f. L. assertōri-us (f. assertor: see prec.) + -AL 1.] Of the nature of assertion, affirming that a thing is; as distinguished from problematical (that it may be) and necessary or apodictical (that it must be). Hence Assertorially adv., in assertorial manner, in affirmation.
1863. trans. Saisset’s Ess. Relig. Philos., I. 281. These twelve kinds of judgments … problematical, assertorial, and apodeictic—represent, in his eyes, twelve logical functions of the understanding.
1877. E. Caird, Philos. Kant, II. xviii. 637. The practical reason will thus give assertorial value to the problematical results of theory. Ibid., II. xiii. 499. No perception … of objects beyond the sphere of sense, on which the understanding might be used assertorially.
