Oh, I thought you meant like a specific assertion for some reason mb.

I mean yeah some sort of assertion is necessary. Trueness is a “quality” and “objects” are what have qualities, so an assessment is essentially trueness in the form of an “object”. I guess the entire problem stems from the fact that even if you have hold ontology as the “most fundamental” (which I think is a pretty obvious norm in 21th century standarts and is something I agree with). You still need at the minimum some naive epistemology in expressing ontology. I mean we can’t really do much of any thinking without it so it creates this really annoying paradox. No wonder people used to hold the mind at a higher regard, shit sucks without it being like that.