"affirm the question" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it whenever you want to confirm something that was asked in a question. For example, "Do you agree with this statement?" "Yes, I affirm the question."
Those affirming the question about previous falls, FOF or being unsteady were anticipated to have a higher degree of FOF than those responding no.
In response to this criticism, McDowell has said that in accepting his disjunctive account of experience we need not pretend to have an argument that can prove that we are not being deceived using premises we can affirm without begging the question against the sceptic.
Further examples of answers from individual patients are given in Table 1.> When asked if there had been also positive aspects of the disease, about half of the survivors affirmed this question (positive aspects: "yes" 60/125 (48%%); "no": 54/125 (43 %); "missing" 11/125 (9 %)).
They require only that there be a widely shared disposition within the linguistic community to affirm the sentence in question.
The Sophistical Refutations are the first systematic classification of fallacies, sorted by what logical flaw each type manifests (e.g. equivocation, begging the question, affirming the consequent, secundum quid) and how to expose them.
One biology professor went so far as to declare in his syllabus that he would not provide a medical school recommendation to anyone in his class who did not "truthfully and forthrightly affirm a scientific answer" to the question of human origins (see, e.g., The New York Times).
He said that even if he reached the merits of the question, he would affirm and hold the search unconstitutional because the majority misapplied a balancing of "privacy-related and law enforcement-related concerns".
Having taken up the question, the Supreme Court should affirm that ruling.
Navigators also encouraged and congratulated the patient's achievements, gave the patient the opportunity to air frustrations and concerns, and used reflection and open-ended questions to affirm the patient's experiences and progress.
We also compared the time needed to complete the survey between participants negating or affirming the due diligence question.
But the question remains, What do people mean when they affirm such a belief?
