apophasis

Latin

noun
Definitions
  • denial, negation, repudiation
  • (Late Latin) apophasis; ironically alluding to a subject matter by denying that the subject will be mentioned, embedded within a statement or rhetorical question whereby one, as it were, answers himself
  • (Ecclesiastical Latin) apprehending knowledge of what is true about an unknowable, such as the essence of a divine being like God, by a negative process of denying propositions that are knowably untrue

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀπόφασις (denial, negation), φάσις (appearance, statement, proposition, an appearance, utterance) derived from Proto-Hellenic *pʰā́mā derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂, *bʰeh₂- (speak), *bʰeh₂- (speak, shine, say, glow).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*bʰeh₂-

Gloss

speak, shine, say, glow

Concept
Semantic Field

Speech and language

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

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