Assertion: speech | /r/HasProperty | viewed as way
Facets:
value: for much
type: TEMPORAL
value: primarily
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: For much of the history of the positivist philosophy of language, language was viewed primarily as a way of making factual assertions, and the other uses of language tended to be ignored, as Austin states at the beginning of Lecture 1, "It was for too long the assumption of philosophers that the business of a 'statement' can only be to 'describe' some state of affairs, or to 'state some fact', which it must do either truly or falsely.