Claims, Assertions, Statements

CLAIM

Expression "supposedly" true

Not ALL are true

Some LIES

Some mistaken belief

Not straightfowardly true or false

Spoken, writtem or thought

STATEMENT

Grammatical sense

Distinguish between

ASSERTION

Can be made in different ways

Judged to be true or false

DECLARATIVES

INTERROGATIVES

IMPERATIVES

DIVIDE

FACTS

OPINIONS

True statement

State

Claim

Only if it is really a fact

You can be mistaken or lying

Pureley an opinion

Knwon fact

You can check it

SUBJECTIVE

Truth decided by individual

OBJETIVE

Value Judgements

Opinions about perceived value or worth or rightness of things

Predictions and Probabilities

Something may or may not be true because is still in the future, or is as yet unverified

Claim to fact

Unless or until there is more factual evidence avaiable

Truth exists and is there to be discovered

OBJECTIVE

Hypotheses

True or false

True or false

If cannot be made with certainty

Made with degree of probability

Probabilities of a very high order

Even when they are geenerally accepted as true

Recommendations

How things ought to be

RHETHORICAL QUESTIONS

Making an assertion