A person, for Nietzsche, has a Dionysian attitude toward life insofar as he affirms his life unconditionally; in particular, insofar as he affirms it including the "suffering" or other hardships it has involved.
However, for Schlegel, this did not make comedy dependent on tragedy; on the contrary, he affirms it to be "a species of poetry as independent and original as tragedy itself" (LDA, 108).
Origen is perhaps the first extant writer who informs us that this question had been posed in his time, though in his accustomed manner he neither affirms it at First Principles 4.4.7 nor names its proponents.
In one he vacated the bankruptcy court's judgment, saying it was a matter for the state probate court; in the other, he affirmed that it was the probate court's proper role to decide on the merits of fraud and malfeasance accusations.
He pointed a GoPro at himself and howled, "This is really happening!" The camera affirmed it.
Sixty years after the incident, he affirmed that it was not Nazi soldiers but ordinary Poles who had beaten, stabbed and finally burned alive their fellow villagers in a barn.
The faraway flash was "so small a body that he could not affirm it to be land," Columbus wrote, referring to himself in the third person.
"This is ours," he affirmed, and placed it on the pile.
