Quantum Mechanics might be described as the apophatic science of uncertainty. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Schaeffer: Changing the Conversation on Religion (Before it Kills Us All)] Reference
It's called apophatic theology and can be applied to both secular and religious ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Schaeffer: Changing the Conversation on Religion (Before it Kills Us All)] Reference
In fact, a whole anti-theology came to be called apophatic theology, or the theology of not knowing, or negative theology. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Schaeffer: Changing the Conversation on Religion (Before it Kills Us All)] Reference
Or is it a kind of apophatic metaphysics posited in order to protect the divine being from anything relative and creaturely. From Wordnik.com. [The Fire and the Rose] Reference
An example of apophatic mysticism is in the classical Tao text. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism] Reference
It is not merely apophatic, either syntactically or semantically. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
If I am not mistaken, you have just rediscovered apophatic theology. From Wordnik.com. [Spirits in a Material World: A Multi-Blog Conversation] Reference
Because it lacks predicates, this apophatic essentiality seems too abstract for Hegel. From Wordnik.com. [Hegel on Buddhism] Reference
The biggest trouble with Cupitt is that he completely fails to 'get' the apophatic tradition. From Wordnik.com. [No One Believes That The God Of The Bible Exists Anymore] Reference
Contrary to Carey's claim, it is Anselm, not Gaunilo, who is closer to the apophatic tradition. From Wordnik.com. [Fatal Beauty?] Reference
So to explain some of the core sense of that, I'll need to use two words 'cataphatic' and 'apophatic'. From Wordnik.com. [Dust and bones] Reference
I had a few philosophy teachers in France who felt very uneasy about confusing the apophatic with the apophantic. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: APOPHENIA.] Reference
This seems to me to be the basis of his ‘religious point of view’, for his position seems ultimately to be apophatic. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference
Following on the theme of God's unity, Maimonides emerges as a strong proponent of apophatic discourse, sometimes referred to as. From Wordnik.com. [The Influence of Islamic Thought on Maimonides] Reference
The Cloud of Unknowing and look up the word apophatic. From Wordnik.com. [Books, Inq. — The Epilogue] Reference
So all speech is shot through with an apophatic, what?. From Wordnik.com. [Latest entries from endlesslyrocking.blog-city.com] Reference
Many have discerned absolutistic and apophatic tendencies in Candrakîrti. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph S. O'Leary homepage] Reference
But the apophatic path seems more than mere rationalism in the service of cultural sterility. From Wordnik.com. [Sarx] Reference
Based on what you're saying, it sounds like you share my director's natural affinity for the apophatic path. From Wordnik.com. [The Website of Unknowing] Reference
Where Brad says "for a disturbing look at apophatic theology played out to an extreme, click here", that's me. From Wordnik.com. [Blogging Change] Reference
His criticism of the filioque, which was apophatic in nature, was one which incorporated nominalist-leaning insight. From Wordnik.com. [Vox Nova] Reference
So this is what I mean by the apophatic. From Wordnik.com. [Free Internet Press] Reference
I am more interested in the apophatic type. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph S. O'Leary homepage] Reference
What I practice is not apophatic "theology". From Wordnik.com. [Blogging Change] Reference
This is indeed an apophatic trait in Augustine. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph S. O'Leary homepage] Reference
"apophatic theology, unlike agnosticism, is a particular way of" knowing through nonknowing ". From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
3: 1 A poem is apophatic, farouche. From Wordnik.com. [slow reads] Reference
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