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The logical challenge of negative theology

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

Volume 54 (2018): Issue 1 (June 2018)

By: Piotr Urbańczyk

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|Nov 2018

Abstract

In this paper I present four interpretations of so-called negative theology and provide a number of attempts to model this theory within a formal system. Unfortunately, all of them fail in some manner. Most of them are simply inconsistent, some contradict the usual religious praxis and discourse, and some do not correspond to the key theses of negative theology. I believe that this paper shows how challenging this theory is from a logical perspective.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2018-0022 | Journal eISSN: 2199-6059 | Journal ISSN: 0860-150X

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Language: English

Page range: 149 - 174

Published on: Nov 16, 2018

Published by: University of Białystok

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Keywords:

negative theology,

apophatic theology,

self-reference,

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Philosophy, other

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