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apophatic
Adj. 1. 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')
I think man has as much chance of understanding God as my dog (if I still had one_) would have of understanding what
I do with my computer.
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Most excellently useful word, wwh! I have no earthly idea how I'll remember this one, but I do like the concept here.
Now: What would be the connection between apathy and apophatic? Any at all or just coincidence of the 'ap'? You know, as coincidental as apples and apathy or apples and apophatic.
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Offhand, apathy is just the lack of feeling.
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a-pathos
Yes, wwh. I see.
But apophatic.
Is that a-pophatic (I guess not)
or:
apo-phatic with 'apo' meaning one thing and 'phatic' meaning another?
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Phatic from Greek phatos 'spoken' from phanai 'to speak; cognate with aphasia.
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