Affirmation is a declaration that something is true. Specifically, it may refer to:
- in logic, 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
- Affirmed in law, means that a decision has been reviewed and found valid
- Affirmation of St. Louis, the founding document of the Continuing Anglican Movement churches
- Affirmations (New Age), the practice of positive thinking in New Age terminology
- Affirmative prayer, a form of prayer that focuses on a positive outcome
As a proper noun, Affirmation may be:
- Affirmation (Beverley Knight album)
- Affirmation (Savage Garden album)
- "Affirmation" (song), title track of this album
Famous quotes containing the word affirmation:
“I would say that deconstruction is affirmation rather than questioning, in a sense which is not positive: I would distinguish between the positive, or positions, and affirmations. I think that deconstruction is affirmative rather than questioning: this affirmation goes through some radical questioning, but it is not questioning in the field of analysis.”
—Jacques Derrida (b. 1930)
“The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“Hoot how the inhuman colors fell
Into place beside her, where she was,
Like human conciliations, more like
A profounder reconciling, an act,
An affirmation free from doubt.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)