Why Something Rather Than Nothing?

[Mister Agenda]

as·ser·tion/əˈsərSH(ə)n/
noun
a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief.

Your opinion seems to be largely dependent on what will best serve the cause of making you feel like you're winning an argument in the moment that you say it.

If a being says(out loud or during an interior monologue), "I am God".....that is a statement of fact or belief(in this case belief as I have shown). It is an assertion by the definition you have provided. If it is not an assertion....then what is it?

Depends on how much conviction is behind it. I posited that God wouldn't HAVE to have a conviction that he is the supreme being. Unless you are saying that God DOES have to have such a conviction, I don't see what your issue is. If you ARE saying that, I'd love to hear your explanation for why it must be true.

In philosophy assertion is a complicated concept. People write entire papers on what is an assertion. The jist of it is....if it is a statement based on belief....it is an assertion. If it is a statement based on actual knowledge....it is a fact.

Why don't you go to the philosophy section and start a thread on it? In normal discussion it's best to use the plain meaning of words. And your fixation on this term is not doing a whit to advance the discussion. We're not using philosophical jargon here, we're speaking English, and the ususal definition suffices for what we're trying to communicate.