so you think that something like feline animalism is an assertion i don't think i'm making myself clear at all then your page says you have a ba in philosophy are you familiar with much philosophy of language perhaps you'll like seeing a more formal argument assertions are statements things that can be true or false cf is it raining which is a question not a statement a common sensible and relevant use of id is we came about through intelligent design not evolution that makes no sense if id is a statement so id can't be a statement cf we came about through one phenomenon not the other if id isn't a statement then it can't be an assertion qed where do i go wrong compare id to lamps marxism and goldbach's conjecture i assert that lamps makes no sense because lamps can't be true or false marxism also can't be true or false but every even integer greater than can be written as the sum of two primes can be the reason the lead sounds right is because that is the thing that supporters of id often assert t