apophatism
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1. the religious belief that God cannot be known but is completely `other' and must be described in negative terms (in terms of what God is not) (noun.cognition)
| hypernym | : | faith, religion, religious belief, |
| definition | : | a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny (noun.cognition) |
| antonym | : | cataphatism, |
| definition | : | the religious belief that God has given enough clues to be known to humans positively and affirmatively (e.g., God created Adam `in his own image') (noun.cognition) |
| antonym | : | analogy, doctrine of analogy, |
| definition | : | the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate (noun.cognition) |
| antonym | : | cataphatism, |
| definition | : | the religious belief that God has given enough clues to be known to humans positively and affirmatively (e.g., God created Adam `in his own image') (noun.cognition) |
| antonym | : | analogy, doctrine of analogy, |
| definition | : | the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate (noun.cognition) |
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