• German: beteuern
• Spanish: aseverar

Related terms

• asseveration

Affirmation is a declaration that something is true. It also has various meanings within the domains of personal development, psychology, healthcare and prayer. The word can refer to several things:

• In logic, an affirmation is a positive judgment, the union of the subject and predicate of a proposition.
• Affirmation in law, a declaration made by and allowed to those who conscientiously object to taking an oath
• Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons, an international Mormon organization
• Music albums:
  • Affirmation (album) by Savage Garden
    • Affirmation (song), title track of this album
  • Affirmation (Beverley Knight album)

See also

• negation
• oath
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• affirmative

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