Affirmation/Affirmations" or Affirm/Affirming" may refer to:

Logic

  • Affirmation, a declaration that something is true
  • In logic, the union of the subject and predicate of a proposition

Law

  • Affirmation (law), a declaration made by and allowed to those who conscientiously object to taking an oath
  • Affirmed in law, means that a decision has been reviewed and found valid

Business

  • Affirm Holdings, a financial technology company

Psychology

  • Self-affirmation, the psychological process of re-affirming personal values to protect self-identity
  • Affirmations (New Age), the practice of positive thinking in New Age terminology
  • Affirmative prayer, a form of prayer that focuses on a positive outcome
  • Nietzschean affirmation, a philosophical concept according to which we create meaning and knowledge for ourselves in a nihilistic world

Organisations

  • Affirmation: LGBTQ Mormons, Families, & Friends, an international Latter-day Saint organisation
  • Affirmation Scotland, an LGBT group within the Church of Scotland
  • Affirmations (Ferndale, Michigan), an LGBT community center in Ferndale, Michigan

Music

  • Affirmation (Beverley Knight album), and song by Knight on this album
  • Affirmation (Savage Garden album)
  • "Affirmation" (George Benson song), a song written by José Féliciano, which became a jazz standard associated with George Benson
  • "Affirmation" (Savage Garden song)

Other uses

  • Affirmation and negation in grammar
  • Affirmation of St. Louis, the founding document of the Continuing Anglican Movement churches
  • Affirmations (film), a 1990 short film
  • The Affirmation, a 1981 novel by Christopher Priest
  • Affirmations (L. Ron Hubbard), a work written by L. Ron Hubbard

See also

  • Affirmative (disambiguation)
  • Negation (disambiguation)