Apophatic may refer to:
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Apophasis
Apophasis (; , ) is a rhetorical device wherein the speaker or writer brings up a subject by either denying it, or denying that it should be brought up. Accordingly, it can be seen as a rhetorical relative of irony. A classic example of apophasi ...
, a rhetoric device whereby the speaker raises something by denying it
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Apophatic theology
Apophatic theology, also known as negative theology, is a form of theology, theological thinking and religious practice which attempts to Problem of religious language, approach God, the Divine, by negation, to speak only in terms of what may no ...
, a way of describing the divine by explaining what God is ''not''
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