The phrase "affirmation that there is" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the confirmation or assertion of the existence of something.
Example: "The study provides an affirmation that there is a significant correlation between the two variables."
Alternatives: "confirmation of existence" or "assertion that there is".
"Even a denial is seen as some sort of affirmation that there is something to deny".
The pleasure of "Mad Men" is not in discovery anymore; it's in the affirmation that there is still some invention left in a series that took audiences by surprise and then kept them hooked even when the novelty wore off.
One of the essential developments of the civil-rights movement is the recovery of black history, the recognition and affirmation that there isn't just one American mainstream and one American history but that each ethnic group has a history, and one that, for the most part, fell outside the traditional, imposed national narratives that depended on silence and lies.
My message to a CEO and his leadership team is one of courageous and demanding possibility, of affirmation that there is a way out of inertia.
Popper stresses in particular that there is no unique way, no single method such as induction, which functions as the route to scientific theory, a view which Einstein personally endorsed with his affirmation that 'There is no logical path leading to [the highly universal laws of science].
And third - and most importantly, I think - because this novel is an affirmation that there is a final justice in the universe; that man is something more than a neuron net; that there is a high degree of probability - let's not beat around the bush – that there is an intelligence, a creator whom C.S. Lewis famously alluded to as "the love that made the worlds".
They pay apt attention to two white police officers' beating and arrest of Davis outside Birdland, in 1959 but they miss a few remarkable aspects of the incident, including the instant protest of a crowd that blocked traffic, and the remarkable declaration of the judge who dismissed charges against Davis with the affirmation that there's no such crime as resisting an illegitimate arrest.
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.
Each test and positive affirmation that there was nothing wrong with me sent me further down the spiral.
I was never a macho guy, but Bowie's existence seemed to be an affirmation that there was no shame in exploring different aspects of yourself through changing your appearance.
Human rights lawyer Li Heping called the award "huge encouragement for the Chinese people ... an affirmation that there are people around the world who really care about human rights and the legal system in China, that the world hasn't forgotten us".
