But I find the remarks fascinating and important to deconstruct because they affirm – as insider discourse captured for the public often can – the fact that a new kind of narrative for America has taken over from one of our oldest and most cherished national myths.
The barrel bombs are disturbing because they affirm what has been increasingly clear throughout the Syrian war: The Bashar al-Assad regime is interested in no path forward other than by killing, something at which it is sufficiently competent to avoid losing the war, but not perhaps to win outright.
The obvious consequence of these rules is that, with the only exception of insolubilia, which are called false not because they signify the false, but because they affirm themselves to be false or not to be true, all the other kinds of proposition are true if and only if what they signify is true, and false if and only if what they signify is false (ibidem, p. 64).
What Yogananda was saying is that Jesus did not preach to Christians; he preached to humanity". Christopher Chappel, a professor of theological studies and an expert on the religious traditions of India at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, said many of Yogananda's assertions would enhance Christian faith, because they affirm the resurrection and other accounts of Jesus' experiences.
One suggests that people who are similar to oneself are more positively reinforcing because they affirm one's own viewpoint (Byrne, 1971); the other suggests that we use our own viewpoint as an anchor to determine what might be good behaviour, then use this value judgement to determine whether or not another person is likely to be a trustworthy friend (Kaplan & Anderson, 1973).
In this work they affirm: Because interethnic admixture is either common or increasing at a fast pace in many, if not most populations, extrapolation on a global scale of pharmacogenomic data from well-defined ethnic groups is plagued with uncertainty.
The reason that Rodriguez did not want to testify and why no documents have been released is because they would affirm the solid basis for A-Rod's suspension.
It's true that they affirm production over expression because production is true to being (being is desiring-production) whereas expression distorts, displaces, and depotentializes being, but also and maybe more importantly the liberation of production rather than its repression in expression leads to joy.
So they affirm spirituality, not religion, because personal opinion doesn't comport with any belief system that bases its expression in propositional truth (for example, the Bible).
M. Chamarat proposed a plot involving people suffering from imaginary health; he said, "The situation does exist... and many large companies offer free psychiatric treatment to their new employees;...if they accept; treatment, they admit they are sick, but if they don't they are rejected as too sick, because they dare affirm that they are in good health.
