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VOCABULARY OF PHILOSOPHY – ASSERTORY

ASSERTORY, Affirmative.—Judgments have been distinguished into problematic, assertory, and apodeictic.

 «The problematic is that which expresses logical possibility only, that is, a free choice of admitting such a proposition, and a purely optional admission of it into the understanding. The assertory, logical reality or truth… The apodeictic represents the assertory as determined by the very laws of the understanding, and therefore as asserting à priori, thus expressing logical necessity» (Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Transc. Anal., bk. I. ch. I. sec. 3.; Max Müller’s transl., II. 67).