Sentence examples for cannot affirm from inspiring English sources

We cannot affirm anything positive about God, because no affirmation can be appropriate to a transcendent being.

I cannot affirm, but have reason to think, these terms would not now be accepted.

Hellmann said: "I cannot affirm that Rudy Guede is the only one who knows what happened that night".

M. HERZOG: I think they have already been read, Mr. President; I cannot affirm it, but believe so.

"I cannot affirm it but it is possible, it's probable," said Dzyuba when asked to clarify his claim that the coverage had a political agenda.

"Because the investigations have just started, we cannot affirm that all this money came from payments from Russian athletes," she said.

But, of course, Christians cannot simply affirm secular humanism (they wouldn't still be Christians if they did).

Thus, I argue that campuses cannot merely affirm the status quo; neither can we as undocumented persons nor our accomplices let that happen.

"It must answer questions about living without God, face issues concerning forces beyond our control as well as our own responsibility, find a satisfying way of thinking about what we may know and what we cannot know, affirm a secular basis for morality, point to ways of coming to terms with death and explore what hope might mean today".

It would seem, therefore, that a nominalist cannot consistently affirm that theory.

But, he argued, it does not follow that we cannot now affirm that either the proposition or its negation is true, thanks to the Law of Excluded Middle; in which case it cannot be that truth is verifiability — contrary both to James' pragmatism and to logical empiricism.