Taxonomy vs Apophatic - What's the difference?
taxonomy | apophatic |
The science or the technique used to make a classification.
A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
(taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
Pertaining to knowledge of God obtained through negation rather than positive assertions.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 488:
*2009 , (Karen Armstrong), The Case for God , Vintage 2010, p. 123:
*:Augustine had absorbed the underlying spirit of Greek apophatic theology, but the West did not develop a fully fledged spirituality of silence until the ninth century, when the writings of an unknown Greek author were translated into Latin and achieved near-canonical status in Europe.
As a noun taxonomy
is the science or the technique used to make a classification.As an adjective apophatic is
pertaining to knowledge of god obtained through negation rather than positive assertions.taxonomy
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(wikipedia taxonomy)Noun
(taxonomies)Synonyms
* alpha taxonomyDerived terms
* folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomySee also
* classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontologyapophatic
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Adjective
(en adjective)- For him, the assertions of Palamas ran counter to the apophatic insistence in Pseudo-Dionysius that God was unknowable in his essence.