#affirmation

• Affirmation — The act of affirming and its result; the emphatic assertion of a truth or opinion; a firm statement. In psychological and sociological terms, it represents the process of asserting one's personality, talent, or authority within a social or professional group.
• Statement — A statement, declaration, or proposition by which it is asserted with certainty that a fact is true, real, or existing; formal assertion. In formal logic, an affirmation represents the conscious attribution of a predicate to a subject, systematically evaluated by truth values.