affirmativism
English
Etymology
affirmative
+
-ism
Noun
affirmativism
(
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
:
So, once more, when we search below the negations and repudiations of the frontier we come upon a germinal positivism and
affirmativism
.
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