apophatic

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat 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.”

2. sıfat 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—[…]”