A tech company is affirming that automating certain decisions may not, in fact, be the smart thing to do — tacitly acknowledging that removing human agency can generate harm.
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As a scholar whose research focuses on the ethics of communication and as a yoga teacher, I’m interested in how people use rituals and rhetoric to affirm their interconnectedness with one another – and with the world.
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First, they needed to affirm that things were indeed quieter.
Bird songs got sexier during the COVID-19 shutdown|Ula Chrobak|September 24, 2020|Popular Science
We believe that it’s every American’s responsibility to do what they can to affirm, safeguard, and advance the health of our democracy.
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PFLAG envisions a world where diversity is celebrated and all people are affirmed, valued, and respected.
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Advocates claimed that it helped to preserve virtue and to affirm the application of Sharia law.
Saudi Activist Manal Al-Sharif on Why She Removed the Veil|Manal Al Sharif, Advancing Human Rights|October 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
What is worse, it does so only to affirm sexist stereotypes.
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So when we progress, when we affirm ourselves, we should not threaten them.
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I believe this because these ideals that we affirm are true.
Obama’s Human Rights Chief Missing in Action|Josh Rogin|March 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They are demanding that the rest of us affirm their bad theology and codify it in the law.
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From no other source than the knowledge that this first proposition contains a clear conception of that which I affirm.
A History of Philosophy in Epitome|Albert Schwegler
The Chinese affirm that the latter is the finest fruit in the whole world.
A Woman's Journey Round the World|Ida Pfeiffer
Moses does affirm as a certainty that man was created, and his wife also on the sixth day.
Commentary on Genesis, Vol. I|Martin Luther
But this does not authorize the rational psychologist to affirm, from mere conceptions, its permanence beyond life.
The Critique of Pure Reason|Immanuel Kant
But it would be rash to affirm that it is not even swifter than any variation among domesticated animals.
Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death|Frederick W. H. Myers
British Dictionary definitions for affirm
affirm
/ (əˈfɜːm) /
verb(mainly tr)
(may take a clause as object)to declare to be true; assert positively
to uphold, confirm, or ratify
(intr)lawto make an affirmation
Derived forms of affirm
affirmeroraffirmant, noun
Word Origin for affirm
C14: via Old French from Latin affirmāre to present (something) as firm or fixed, assert, from ad- to + firmāre to make firm1