Asserting
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Both words in one sentence
- Fans of the latter claim that Disney is too squeaky-clean, and nothing more than an enormous Idol Singer marketing machine, while asserting that Nick's stars can act and sing circles around Disney's.
Source: Fandom Rivalry / Live-Action TV -
Begging the Question: A logical fallacy where you claim to prove something simply by asserting that it's true (usually in slightly different wording; Circular Reasoning is similar, but with more than two steps intervening between the postulate and the assertion).
Source: Catch-22 Dilemma - The "mothers" (women who'd donated ova to clinics and such) weren't consulted at any stage of the proceedings and just about all of them were singularly uninterested in asserting any claim on the children.
Source: Bothering by the Book
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