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apophasis: a standalone construct

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apophasis1 CONSTRUCTApophasisSELLS · PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

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Philosophy of religion

speaking of the transcendent by unsaying or negating each statement made about it, which Sells studies across Greek, Christian, Jewish and Islamic writers.

In philosophy of religion, apophasis refers to speaking of the transcendent by unsaying or negating each statement made about it, which Sells studies across Greek, Christian, Jewish and Islamic writers. This meaning comes from Sells (1994) in Mystical languages of unsaying.[1]

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  1. Sells, M. A. (1994). Mystical languages of unsaying. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226747866

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