Perplexing vs Arcane - What's the difference?
perplexing | arcane | Related terms |
Understood by only a few; obscure; requiring secret or mysterious knowledge.
* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
Perplexing is a related term of arcane.
As adjectives the difference between perplexing and arcane
is that perplexing is confusing or puzzling while arcane is understood by only a few; obscure; requiring secret or mysterious knowledge.As a verb perplexing
is .arcane
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane' knowledge. Knowing was '''guessing''' and ' interpreting , not observing or demonstrating.