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affirmation

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Affirmation " is a song by Savage Garden , released as the fourth single from their second studio album of the same name.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "assertion that something is true," from Old French afermacion (14c.), from Latin affirmationem (nominative affirmatio ) "an affirmation, solid assurance," noun of action from past participle stem of affirmare (see affirm ). In law, as the Quaker ...

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n. a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something [syn: avowal , avouchment ] the act of affirming or asserting or stating something [syn: assertion , statement ] (religion) a solemn declaration that serves the same purpose as an oath (if ...

Usage examples of affirmation.

Though ambivalent, Kennedy, seeking credibility in Vietnam, was for the moment in favor of increased effort and wanted affirmation rather than information, as his choice of envoys indicates.

Almost every well-intended and enlightened gesture designed to help immigrants in the last three decades - de facto open borders, bilingual education, new state welfare programs, the affirmation of a hyphenated identity, a sweeping revisionism in southwestern American history - has either failed to ensure economic parity or thwarted the processes of assimilation.

That been in a way her own declaration of independence, her bill rights, her affirmation of personhood and of freedom?

Perhaps the identity in substance with differentiation in reason will be defended on the ground that Privation does not point to something present but precisely to an absence, to something absent, to the negation or lack of Real-being: the case would be like that of the affirmation of non-existence, where there is no real predication but simply a denial.

Privation does not point to something present but precisely to an absence, to something absent, to the negation or lack of Real-being: the case would be like that of the affirmation of non-existence, where there is no real predication but simply a denial.

This objection, however, does not present an insuperable obstacle, because the revolutionary past, and the contemporary cooperative productive capacities through which the anthropological characteristics of the multitude are continually transcribed and reformulated, cannot help revealing a telos, a material affirmation of liberation.

And does not such affirmation become impudently absurd when coupled with the other affirmation from the same mouth, that those who did the two things alleged to be inconsistent understood whether they really were inconsistent better than we--better than he who affirms that they are inconsistent?

He must have had some reasons, and perhaps not unplausible ones, for this affirmation, of which all his hearers, as they had the accounts lying before them, were at that time competent judges.

This massive effort at planting was a development that Anne Blenheim understood was fairly new, and of which she heartily approved both esthetically and as an affirmation of life.

Testimony here assumes its broadest connotation as the exemplary affirmation of incontrovertible human and national values.

Whether it comes to the point of rejecting all reality or of affirming nothing but reality, it denies itself each time either by absolute negation or by absolute affirmation.

That there was a deliberate purpose to mislead the public by an affirmation that cruel and unjustifiable experiments were a myth, the creation of imagination, is an hypothesis we must reject.

The inevitable consequence is that we imprison ourselves hopelessly in the affirmation of Kantian relativism.

Breathless, Kerrie lay sheltered beneath Roman, still clinging to him, not wanting this vital connection, this affirmation of life to end.

The prepositional form posits as a condition of language the affirmation of a relation of identity or difference: we can speak only in so far as this relation is possible.