assertions

The difference is just how you check the assertions - by running tests or by attempting a proof.

Dijkstra's approach is actually a lot like test-driven development - the idea is, you start with some assertions that describe what the code is supposed to do, then you check the assertions as you go -- instead of writing a bunch of code and checking it at the end.

The formal specifications are just assertions - they are Boolean expressions that express properties of the solution.

People around you will make assertions about objective reality that are beyond any reasonable doubt incorrect, sometimes dangerously so.

And since the SyFy show, he seems to take a much more skeptical view on new assertions.

It was this research that gave strong, empirical support to Bowlby's assertions on the importance of love and mother/child interaction.

You need to justify characterizing your values in that way, which means either explicit range checks and assertions, or otherwise deriving them from something that applies that guarantee in turn.

This bogus and unfounded claim calls the rest of his expert assertions into question.

I do not understand why people think it's okay to make such assertions without backing them up.

Prejudice is literally pre-judging, making assertions based on fear without knowing the facts.

Consider my oft-repeated mantra here at HN: Use assertions before you use debuggers.

So much FUD and bold assertions without any proof/reference in that article.

Ren to make assertions about that “vast majority,” the paper has put its tremendous prestige and power behind a demonstrably misleading depiction of the nail salon business as a whole.

I find those "The Dog in the Manger" assertions weird.

I should read everything with healthy skepticism, but really my initial gut reaction of "yeah right" was a little eye opening - if even I had a negative reaction to the assertions, I can't imagine what people who are skeptics of human-created climate change at all must think.