affirmativism
English
editEtymology
editFrom affirmative + -ism.
Noun
editaffirmativism (uncountable)
- An attitude of affirming something without necessarily providing the proof or the theoretical backing.
- 1931, Percival Chubb, On the Religious Frontier: From an Outpost of Ethical Religion[1]:
- So, once more, when we search below the negations and repudiations of the frontier we come upon a germinal positivism and affirmativism.