Sentence examples for does not affirm from inspiring English sources
Sextus says that, while things appear X to the skeptic, the skeptic does not affirm that they are X.
The intellect may present some content as true, but by itself it does not affirm or deny that truth.
Sextus insists that the skeptic does not accept or reject any impression, and associates the lack of these mental acts with the fact that the skeptic does not affirm or deny anything (e.g., PH 1.4, 7, 10).
It tries to derive a negative existential from a single negative instance, in that it allows us to infer that there is no way of grasping a given proposition such that the agent affirms it from the fact that there is one way (the way associated with the sentence she denies) under which she does not affirm it.
Dear daughter, a man does not affirm your identity.
Dr. Chang does not believe Daniel when he says that he is from the future, and Miles Ken Leungg) does not affirm Dan's story, even after Daniel informs Dr. Chang that Miles is his son from the future.
The study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine last month, is a chilling revelation of the ties between suicide and theology that doesn't affirm queer identity.
Or we think the way we love has to fit the norms of a society that doesn't affirm us in any way to begin with.
Barbara Arnwine, president of the Lawyers Committeee for Civil Rights Under Law, was disappointed that "the Supreme Court did not affirm the constitutionality of the University of Texas affirmative action plan," she said in a statement.
The Iraqi Kurdish leadership was furious when, early this month, the United States acceded to a U.N. resolution on the restoration of Iraqi sovereignty that did not affirm the interim constitution that granted the minority Kurds veto power in any permanent constitution.
As recently as Wednesday, Billy Tauzin, president of the PhRMA, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, had all but threatened to reverse the group's support for the health care overhaul if the White House did not affirm its commitment to cap the industry's costs at the agreed-upon $80 billion.
