counteraffirmation
nounEtymology From counter- + affirmation.
1
An affirmation in opposition to another affirmation.
- So understood, it is not entirely clear how this response meets the skeptical challenge or how it is anything more than a dogmatic counteraffirmation to the skeptic's claim that veridical perception and deceptive appearances are indistinguishable.2011, Michael D. Barber, The Intentional Spectrum and Intersubjectivity, page 46: