The phrase "affirm anything" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to express the act of confirming or asserting something without specifying what that something is.
Example: "In a court of law, witnesses are often asked to affirm anything they have seen or heard related to the case."
Alternatives: "confirm anything" or "assert anything".
We cannot affirm anything positive about God, because no affirmation can be appropriate to a transcendent being.
In a world in which the rituals and laws have been supplanted, in a world in which there is no clear reason to affirm anything, transgression becomes commonplace.
As long as knowledge has not been attained, the skeptics aim not to affirm anything.
Since he does not himself affirm anything in any of his dialogues, can we ever be on secure ground in attributing a philosophical doctrine to him (as opposed to one of his characters)?
Strictly speaking, he does not himself affirm anything in his dialogues; rather, it is the interlocutors in his dialogues who are made by Plato to do all of the affirming, doubting, questioning, arguing, and so on.
Second, she mentions absence of worship or prayer: there is a difference, she says, between asking someone to join in a ritual observance and simply making a statement that doesn't ask people to affirm anything.
She never affirmed anything without first condemning its opposite, and although she saw life in these polar terms, she located the antipodes within herself.
But the person who is spiritual and not religious gets to sort of float over life without ever affirming anything.
If we have affirmed anything as a nation over these past sixteen days since the Michael Brown and now Eric Garner "death but no indictment" verdicts, it's that our criminal justice system is discriminatory, unconstitutional, and in dire need of repair, particularly in enforcement.
Another song affirmed that anything you can think, you can do — that anything is possible.
He had also written that he apprehends no objects at all and therefore has no need to affirm or deny anything, and since he neither affirms nor denies any proposition, he need not supply any reasons to justify his stance.
