The phrase "affirmation of the truth" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is asserting or confirming the validity of a statement or belief.
Example: "The witness provided an affirmation of the truth during the trial, reinforcing the credibility of the evidence presented."
Alternatives: "confirmation of the truth" or "assertion of the truth."
According to Reid, moral statements are judgments, which are affirmations of the truth or falsity of a proposition.
The cartoon was a properly irreverent combination — an affirmation of the most universal truth, a commitment to the magazine's own very particular identity.
This belief also furnished a warrant for the Catholic affirmation of the body of truth that is transmitted to the church through the college of bishops and preserved by oral tradition (meaning that it was not written in the Scriptures).
Leonard believes memes function as a form of "social corroboration," an affirmation of a truth or moment that grows more powerful the more it's shared, and often, more dangerous.
Yet others fear that too much of Christianity has become nothing more than a product of the Enlightenment, where belief is equated with the affirmation of propositional truths with little demand for lived expression.
Re your April 14 editorial about the verdict handed down by a British court dismissing David Irving's libel claim against the historian Deborah E. Lipstadt: Justice Charles Gray's decision was not only an affirmation of the importance of fidelity to historical truth, but it was also a lucid recognition of the central motivation of Holocaust deniers like Mr. Irving: anti-Semitism and racism.
It's a declaration of affirmation, recognition of truth, an agreement with the content of what is being said, but most of all a belief that something will be done about it.
Simon Soloveychik has similarly claimed that the truth distributed in the world, as the statement about human dignity, as the affirmation of the line between good and evil, lives in people as conscience.
"Art is the lie that tells the truth," Picasso reportedly said, in a statement that serves as a convenient if self-congratulatory affirmation of the imagination's fact-mangling ways.
