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In Aristotle's term logic there are two logical qualities: affirmation (kataphasis) and denial (apophasis). The logical quality of a proposition is whether it is affirmative (the predicate is affirmed of the subject) or negative (the predicate is denied of the subject).
"Cataphatic" comes from the Greek word κατάφασις kataphasis meaning "affirmation," [1] coming from κατά kata (an intensifier) [2] and φάναι phanai ("to speak"). Terminology [ edit ]
Pseudo-Dionysius further explored apophasis within the context of Christian Philosophy, to him, that which is the transcendent cause in a stricter sense, does not possess all the positive attributes of the universe as it succeeds them all, wherein there ought to be no contradiction between affirmation and denial of such inasmuch as it precedes ...
Affirmation and negation are a crucial building blocks for language. The presence of negation is the absence of affirmation, where affirmation functions individually. [1] There are three main aspects to the concept of affirmation and negation; Cognitive, psychological and philosophical (Schopenhauers theory or Nietzschean affirmation).
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Affirmations are also referred to in Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), Neuro Associative Conditioning "NAC" as popularized by Anthony Robbins, and hypnosis. A related belief is that a certain critical mass of people with a highly spiritual consciousness will bring about a sudden change in the whole population. [ 2 ]
The groom disagreed with his wife, countering that his friend was "just joking." "But I don’t find anything funny about that," the bride insisted.
Nietzschean affirmation (German: Bejahung) is a concept that has been scholarly identified in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. An example used to describe the concept is a fragment in Nietzsche's The Will to Power: Suppose that we said yes to a single moment, then we have not only said yes to ourselves, but to the whole of existence.