Apophasisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Via Late Latin apophasis from Ancient Greek ἀπόφασις (apóphasis, “denial, negation”) from ἀπο- (apo-, “away, from, off”) +‎ φάσις (phásis, “statement, proposition”) from φημί (phēmí, “to speak”) from Proto-Hellenic *pʰā́mā from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂; whence Latin fārī, cognate to fame, fable.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /əˈpɒf.ə.sɪs/
• (米国発音) IPA: /əˈpɑf.ə.sɪs/

名詞

apophasis (countable and uncountable, plural apophases)

1. (rhetoric) An allusion to something by denying that it will be mentioned.

   Synonyms: paralipsis, parasiopesis, praeteritio, preterition

   Hypernym: irony

   Hyponyms: proslepsis, assumptio

   Coordinate terms: antiphrasis, concessio, epitrope, mycterism, sarcasm

   • 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Apophasis.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 63:

     Apophasis, affecting to conceal;
     What it would seem to hide, will yet reveal.

2. (Christianity, philosophy, theology) A process of arriving at knowledge by statements of denial; particularly, developing a concept of God through negative assertions about his nature.

   Synonyms: apophatic theology, via negativa

   Antonyms: cataphasis, via affirmativa

関連する語

• apo-
• -phasis
• apophatic
• apophatically

参考

• not to mention
• to say nothing of

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [aˈpɔ.pʰa.sɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [aˈpɔː.fa.s̬is]

名詞

apophasis f (genitive apophasis); third declension

1. denial, negation, repudiation
2. (Late Latin, logic, rhetoric) apophasis; ironically alluding to a subject matter by denying that the subject will be mentioned, embedded within a statement or rhetorical question whereby one, as it were, answers himself
3. (Ecclesiastical Latin, Christianity, philosophy, theology) apprehending knowledge of what is true about an unknowable, such as the essence of a divine being like God, by a negative process of denying propositions that are knowably untrue

   Synonyms: abnuentia, negatio, (New Latin) via negativa

   Antonyms: affirmatio, aientia, cataphasis, (New Latin) via affirmativa

語形変化

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

派生した語

名詞

apophasīs f

1. accusative plural of apophasis

参照

• “apophasis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “apophasis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “apophasis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 142.
• apophasis in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 499