Defn: The quality or state of being predicable, or affirmable of something, or attributed to something.
Anything affirmable of another; especially, a general attribute or notion as affirmable of, or applicable to, many individuals.
The quality or state of being predicable, or affirmable of something, or attributed to something.
What is affirmable of the subject, is affirmable also of its derivatives: what is not affirmable of the derivatives, is not affirmable of the subject itself.
If the predicate be affirmable of the subject in greater or less degree, it must be affirmable of the subject simply and absolutely.
If, on the contrary, any one of the species be truly affirmable of the subject, then the genus will also be truly affirmable; so that you will have refuted the thesis, supposing it to be negative.
Again, suppose the same predicate to be affirmableof two distinct subjects A and B, but to be more probably affirmable of A than of B.
If no one of these species be truly affirmable of the subject, then neither can the genus be truly affirmable; so that you will have refuted the thesis, supposing it to be affirmative.
These truths, though affirmable of all things whatever, of course apply to them only in respect of their quantity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "affirmable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
