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Affirmation

Affirmation (from Lat. affirmare, to assert), the declaration that something is true; in logic, a positive judgment, the union of the subject and predicate of a proposition; particularly, in law, the solemn declaration allowed to those who conscientiously object to taking an oath[?].

Based on an article from a well-known encyclopedia published in 1911.



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