Simply asserting the documents' veracity does not make them genuine.
The book simply asserts such a link; it offers no theory or evidence.
Liberals simply assert that a certain mood prevailed, and you have to believe it.
He simply asserts them, as if they were part of his autobiography.
First, she simply asserts that such women are ignorant and ungrateful.
Whenever he got a chance to put a word in, he simply asserted the purpose of his visit.
The government should be required to prove rather than simply assert that factors beyond its control have limited the plan's success, the brief will say.
As opposed to simply asserting something you want to be true as though its fact.
The first argument simply asserts that social factors outweigh individual ones.
Legally, at least, the door is wide open for us to simply assert ownership.