apophasis in English

noun

raising a particular issue by saying that it will not be mentioned (e.g., "I will not bring up the fact that CEO Thomson has two children from an adulterous relationship")

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1. Like paralepsis and apophasis, Aposiopesis is one of the classical figures of silence.

2. Ampelopsis definition, meaning, English dictionary, synonym, see also 'Ameiosis',amelogenesis',ampleness',apophasis', Reverso dictionary, English definition, English

3. Apophasis, a rhetoric device whereby the speaker raises something by denying it; Apophatic theology, a way of describing the divine by explaining what God is not

4. Apophatic definition is - of or relating to apophasis : involving the practice of describing something by stating which characteristics it does not have; especially : of, relating to, or being negative theology

5. Negative theology, also known as Apophatic theology, is a theological approach that describes God by negation, speaking of God only in terms of what He is not (apophasis) rather than presuming to describe what God is.

6. The terminology of “apophatic” and “Cataphatic” theologies, that is, the use of negation (apophasis) and affirmation (kataphasis) in our ways of talking about God, was introduced into Christian theology by the probably early-sixth-century author who wrote under the pseudonym of the Apostle Paul’s convert, Dionysius the Areopagite (generally referred to as Pseudo-Dionysius).

7. Apophatic theology and Apophatic anthropology A recent attempt to survey the whole of “Apophatic discourses” insists that “for negative theologies, it is possible to say only what God is not,” and that apophasis amounts to a series of “attempts to devise and, at the same time, to disqualify ways of talking about God.” 1 This approach figures the via negativa as a solution to a