Apophantic vs. Apophatic — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Apophantic and Apophatic
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Apophantic
Apophantic (Greek: ἀποφαντικός, "declaratory", from ἀποφαίνειν apophainein, "to show, to make known") is a term Aristotle coined to mean a specific type of declaratory statement that can determine the truth or falsity of a logical proposition or phenomenon. It was adopted by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger as part of phenomenology.
Apophatic
(theology) Pertaining to knowledge of God obtained through negation rather than positive assertions.
Apophantic
Involving a declaration, statement, or proposition.
Apophatic
(by extension) That which passively defines a thing by describing what it is not characteristic thereof.
Apophatic
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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