Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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doctrine of analogy | Yes | No | No | No |
apophatism | Yes | No | No | No |
doctrine of analogy (noun) | apophatism (noun) |
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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 | 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) |