This affirmation accords with the real-life fact that the amount of force necessary to achieve penetration is not much.
The issue, as the Archbishops recognize, is simply whether and how those opposed can be accommodated in a way that accords with the affirmation of the 1998 Lambeth Conference that, "those who dissent from as well as those who assent to the ordination of women to the Priesthood and episcopate are both loyal Anglicans".
The only possible takeaway is that we're meant to be outliers forevermore, unworthy of the experiences and affirmations accorded others.
According to self-affirmation theory (Steele, 1988), these responses are elicited because our overarching desire for positive self-perception is threatened when we are told we are not acting sensibly or taking care of ourselves (cf. Harris & Epton, 2009).
According to this mode, the affirmation of man is the negation of angel and vice versa (affirmatio enim hominis negatio est angeli, negatio vero hominis affirmatio est angeli, I.444b).
According to Wolfhart Pannenberg the Christian affirmation of an imminent end of the world is scarcely reconcilable with the cosmological extrapolations of the state of the universe zillions of years ahead.
"When you know better, you do better" is an affirmation that assumes people act according to basic decency.
According to Averroes' account of causal necessity, the affirmation of contact between fire and cotton, and the affirmation that there are no impediments, together entail the affirmation of the burning of the cotton.
An important aspect of Moore's rejection of idealism was his affirmation of a 'common sense' realist position, according to which our ordinary common-sense view of the world is largely correct.
When the child acts in accord with the will of another, pleasure results from the affirmation from that other person, while opposition is experienced as painful because it negates the bond of affection.
Granted that knowledge, according to Rosmini, is co-terminus with truth, never with error, it is clear that Rosmini's affirmation depends upon the self-evident need to affirm what one knows.
