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adj. - Of or relating to the belief that God can be known to humans only in terms of what He is not (such as `God is unknowable').

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  • Quantum Mechanics might be described as the apophatic science of uncertainty.
  • It's called apophatic theology and can be applied to both secular and religious ideas.
  • In fact, a whole anti-theology came to be called apophatic theology, or the theology of not knowing, or negative theology.
  • Or is it a kind of apophatic metaphysics posited in order to protect the divine being from anything relative and creaturely.
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