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Agmosticism
the view that there is insufficient evidence for God or the view that God cannot be known
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Truth-Claim
a statement that asserts that something is factually true
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Apophatic Way (via negativa)
a way of speaking about God and theologian ideas using only terms that God is not
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Cataphatic Way (via positiva)
a range of ways of speaking about God and theological ideas using only terms that say what God is
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Univocal language
words that mean the same thing whe used in different context
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Equivocal language
words that mean different things when in different contexts
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anaology
a comparison made between one things and an other in an effort to add understanding
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symbol
a word or other kind of representation used to stand for something else and to shed light onto its meaning
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Truth-Claim

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a statement that asserts that something is factually true

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Apophatic Way (via negativa)

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Cataphatic Way (via positiva)

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Univocal language

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