Ineffability
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Ineffability is the quality of something that surpasses the capacity of language to express it, often being in the form of a
paradoxes
.
Terminology describing the nature of
HaShem
("the name") when reading.
See also
- Atopy (philosophy)
- Apophatic (or "negative") theology
- Creator ineffabilis (Christian prayer)
- Ideasthesia
- Implicit knowledge
- Meaning (linguistics)
- True name
- Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent
References
- ^ Gellman, Jerome; Jones, Richard (29 June 2022). "Mysticism: Ineffability". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2022 Edition).