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What is an apophasis?

What is an apophasis? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (rhetoric) An allusion to something by denying that it will be mentioned
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From this we can perhaps see in what way Tiantai is able to stipulate at once the self-preserving and the self-overcoming of both holism and apophasis.
Mineralization in the F zone is hosted by an apophasis of the porphyry intrusion that reaches surface.
It includes material on metaphysics and its idols, saturation, gift and icon, reading Descartes, revelation and apophasis, and love and sacrifice.
And if that demands an occasional recourse to a reluctant version of apophasis, so be it.
Saint Dionysius offered apophasis and kataphasis as oppositional yet complementary elements in his mystical theology, often termed Via Negativa.
Apophasis is really the negation of rationality as a tool for approaching divinity and is the choice of the contemplative way of the mystic path.

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