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"An affirmation is always the affirmation of something, which is to say that the act of affirming is distinct from the thing affirmed. But if we imagined an affirmation in which the affirming is filled up by what is affirmed, that affirmation could not be affirmed - because of the surfeit of plenitude and the noema's immediate inherence within the noesis."