apophatic
形容词 adj.
英 /apə(ʊ)ˈfatɪk/
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Pertaining to knowledge of God obtained through negation rather than positive assertions.
— For him, the assertions of Palamas ran counter to the apophatic insistence in Pseudo-Dionysius that God was unknowable in his essence.
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That passively defines a thing by describing what is not characteristic of it.
— Here is a sudden interruption of remorseless, detailed exposition with a triple-punch of one-sentence paragraphs of self-indentification (2.1–2.4), and of an apophatic, negative kind, statements of what communists are not, have not, do not—[…]
词汇关系
词源
From Ancient Greek ἀποφατικός (apophatikós, “negative”).
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