The phrase "affair is the same" is grammatically correct but may lack clarity without context.
It can be used when comparing two situations or events that are perceived to be identical in nature or outcome.
Example: "In both cases, the affair is the same, leading to similar consequences for everyone involved."
Alternatives: "situation is identical" or "matter is equivalent".
What makes going to the festival such a hit-or-miss affair is the same thing that guarantees that it will stay fresh and surprising: its behemoth size.
Wallace asks if John Edwards' affair is the same thing as Mark Foley using the page program as his own underaged stand-and-model sweatshop.
Rose, the former mistress mentioned earlier, thinks that no one affair is the same and that no one piece of advice could benefit those in such situations.
Although the subject matter is the same (illicit affairs among the Viennese bourgeoisie), the atmosphere of engaging superficiality is abandoned for narratives of extreme interiority.
The second proposal makes no use of the complexity of states of affairs in their individuation and holds that necessarily co-obtaining states of affairs are the same.
If one is unwilling to make a distinction between encoding and exemplifying, but one wants to maintain the identification of possible worlds with maximal possible state of affairs, one either has to accept that necessarily equivalent states of affairs are the same or one must identify possible worlds with sets of necessarily equivalent possible state of affairs.
Where p and q are states of affairs, p is the same state of affairs as q if and only if p entails q and q entails p. This explains why Chisholm said that the state of affairs of the author of Marmion being knighted is distinct from the state of affairs of the author of Waverly being knighted, even if the author of Waverly happens to be the author of Marmion.
This is the same foreign affairs minister who stands accused of being a sideshow for his own government's foreign policy.
The story is the same in foreign affairs.
"It is the same state of affairs with me," I said.
The job that the new Bush administration offered him -- head of Congressional affairs -- was the same one he had held at the end of the old Bush administration, except that it threatened to be even tougher this time.
