Affirmation

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Affirmation, Affirmations or Affirm may refer to:

Logic

• Affirmation, a declaration that something is true
• In logic, the union of the subject and predicate of a proposition

Law

• 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

Psychology

• Self-affirmation, the psychological process of re-affirming personal values to protect self-identity
• Affirmations (New Age), the practice of positive thinking in New Age terminology
• Affirmative prayer, a form of prayer that focuses on a positive outcome
• Nietzschean affirmation, a philosophical concept according to which we create meaning and knowledge for ourselves in a nihilistic world

Organisations

• Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons, an international Mormon organisation
• Affirmation Scotland, a LGBT group within the Church of Scotland
• Affirmations (Ferndale, Michigan), a LGBT community center in Ferndale, Michigan

Music

• Affirmation (Beverley Knight album), and song by Knight on this album
• Affirmation (Savage Garden album)
• "Affirmation" (George Benson song), a song written by José Féliciano, which has become a jazz standard associated with George Benson
• "Affirmation" (Savage Garden song)

Other Uses

• Affirmation and negation in grammar
• Affirmation of St. Louis, the founding document of the Continuing Anglican Movement churches
• Affirmations (film), a 1990 short film
• Affirmations (L. Ron Hubbard), a work said to have been written by L. Ron Hubbard

See also

• Affirmative (disambiguation)
• Negation (disambiguation)