The Arabic term for " negative theology " is lahoot salbi, which is a " system of theology " or nizaam al lahoot in Arabic.

Different traditions / doctrine schools in Islam called Kalam schools ( see Islamic schools and branches ) use different theological approaches or nizaam al lahoot in approaching God in Islam ( Allah, Arabic الله ) or the ultimate reality.

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Although the dominant strain in Judaism is that God is personal, there is an " alternate stream of tradition exemplified by ... Maimonides ," who, along with several other Jewish philosophers, rejected the idea of a personal God, a reflecting of his belief in negative theology, the idea that God can only be described by what God is not.

Apophatic theology ( from Greek ἀπόφασις from ἀπόφημι – apophēmi, " to deny ")— also known as negative theology or via negativa ( Latin for " negative way ")— is a theology that attempts to describe God, the Divine Good, by negation, to speak only in terms of what may not be said about the perfect goodness that is God.

In brief, negative theology is an attempt to achieve unity with the Divine Good through discernment, gaining knowledge of what God is not ( apophasis ), rather than by describing what God is.

In negative theology, it is accepted that the Divine is ineffable, an abstract experience that can only be recognized or remembered — that is, human beings cannot describe in words the essence of the perfect good that is unique to the individual, nor can they define the Divine, in its immense complexity, related to the entire field of reality, and therefore all descriptions if attempted will be ultimately false and conceptualization should be avoided ; in effect, it eludes definition by definition:

Three more theologians who emphasized the importance of negative theology to an orthodox understanding of God were Gregory of Nyssa, John Chrysostom, and Basil the Great.

While Aquinas felt positive and negative theology should be seen as dialetical correctives to each other, like thesis and antithesis producing a synthesis, Lossky argues, based on his reading of Dionysius and Maximus Confessor, that positive theology is always inferior to negative theology, a step along the way to the superior knowledge attained by negation.

C. S. Lewis, in his book Miracles, advocates the use of negative theology when first thinking about God, in order to cleanse our minds of misconceptions.

While negative theology is used in Christianity as a means of dispelling misconceptions about God, and of approaching Him beyond the limits of human reasoning, most commonly Christian doctrine is taken to involve positive claims: that God exists and has certain positive attributes, even if those attributes are only partially comprehensible to us.

Nevertheless, Plato is far from advocating a negative theology.

Plotinus advocated negative theology in his strand of neoplatonism ( although he may have had precursors in neopythagoreanism and middle Platonism ).

An expression of negative theology is found in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, where Brahman is described as " neti-neti " or " neither this, nor that ".

When used by academics, an arbitrage is a transaction that involves no negative cash flow at any probabilistic or temporal state and a positive cash flow in at least one state ; in simple terms, it is the possibility of a risk-free profit at zero cost.

This involves looking at whether the writer or speaker has a neutral attitude, which can be seen through the use of positive or negative language.

The mechanism involves a pair of electrons from the carbonyl group double bond transferring to the oxygen atom, leaving it single bonded to carbon and giving the oxygen atom a negative charge.

Negative air ionization, which involves releasing charged particles into the sleep environment, has been found effective with a 47. 9 % improvement if the negative ions are in sufficient density ( quantity ).

Converting a formula to DNF involves using logical equivalences, such as the double negative elimination, De Morgan's laws, and the distributive law.

Gay bullying involves intentional and unprovoked actions toward the victim, repeated negative actions by one or more people against another person, and an imbalance of physical or psychological power.

According to Dennis Showalter, " a major challenge of political anti-Semitism involves overcoming the images of the ' Jew next door ' — the living, breathing acquaintance or associate whose simple existence appears to deny the validity of that negative stereotype.

The Lurianic scheme of cosmic Tikkun, involves the separation and elevation of " Sparks of Holiness " by man, that are trapped in, and give life to, mundane or negative phenomena.

Hypochondriac Syndrome is categorized as a somatic amplification disorder — a disorder of " perception and cognition "— that involves a hyper-vigilance of the body's situation and a tendency to react to the initial perceptions in a negative manner that is further debilitating.

In electromagnetism, when charges change positions along electric field lines, work is done on them, whether it involves storing potential energy ( negative work ) or increasing kinetic energy ( positive work ).

Coronavirus transcription involves a discontinuous RNA synthesis ( template switch ) during the extension of a negative copy of the subgenomic mRNAs.

This mechanism involves negative feedback through binding of excess protein to the 5 ' untranslated region of the chloroplast mRNA.

The most common pattern involves a negative predicate in the form of an impersonal and intransitive stative verb, which occurs in sentence initial position.

The second pattern involves a sentence initial negative particle that is often attached to the sentence ’ s subject, and the last pattern simply involves a sentence initial negative particle without any change in inflectional morphology or a determiner / complementizer.

As opposed to in drive theory, which involves negative reinforcement: a stimulus has been associated with the removal of the punishment — the lack of homeostasis in the body.

He pointed out that this does not entail a logical contradiction, as long as all three forms of mass are negative, but that the assumption of negative mass involves some counter-intuitive form of motion.

This generally limits electrolytic capacitors to supply-decoupling and bias-decoupling uses, since signal coupling usually involves both positive and negative voltages across the capacitor.

The authors note two-factor theory involves stark disapproval of the clients ’ “ irrational behavior ” ( p. 350 ); this notably negative outlook could explain the results.

In Berlin's words, " liberty in the negative sense involves an answer to the question: ' What is the area within which the subject — a person or group of persons — is or should be left to do or be what he is able to do or be, without interference by other persons '.

This new synthesis, in Avakian's words, " involves a recasting and recombining of the positive aspects of the experience so far of the communist movement and of socialist society, while learning from the negative aspects of this experience, in the philosophical and ideological as well as the political dimensions …"

Agriculture may create a negative impact on their population due to use of poisons by farmers.

Antibacterials are screened for any negative effects on humans or other mammals before approval for clinical use, and are usually considered safe and most are well tolerated.

A review of the methods used in trials of antipsychotics, despite stating that the overall quality is " rather good ," reported issues with the selection of participants ( including that in schizophrenia trials up to 90 % of people who are generally suitable do not meet the elaborate inclusion and exclusion criteria, and that negative symptoms have not been properly assessed despite companies marketing the newer antipsychotics for these ); issues with the design of trials ( including pharmaceutical company funding of most of them, and inadequate experimental " blinding " so that trial participants could sometimes tell whether they were on placebo or not ); and issues with the assessment of outcomes ( including the use of a minimal reduction in scores to show " response ," lack of assessment of quality of life or recovery, a high rate of discontinuation, selective highlighting of favorable results in the abstracts of publications, and poor reporting of side-effects ).

To control the odor, modern toilets use a small fan to keep the toilet under negative pressure, and exhaust the gasses to a vent pipe.

However, purely negative play is rarely a winning strategy: successful players ( in all versions other than golf croquet ) will use all four balls to set up a break for themselves, rather than simply making the game as difficult as possible for their opponents.

The use of this term usually carries strong connotations of shadowy corners, back rooms and insidious influence ; a cabal is more evil and selective than, say, a faction, which is simply selfish ; because of this negative connotation, few organizations use the term to refer to themselves or their internal subdivisions.

Experimenting with the use of negative space and organic forms in the late 1940s, by the mid-1950s Alston began creating notably modernist style paintings.

Because of the negative associations, modern leaders very rarely ( if ever ) use the term in their formal titles.

A more comprehensive approach to measuring cost-effectiveness or efficacy of malarial control would not only measure the cost in dollars of the project, as well as the number of people saved, but would also consider ecological damage and negative aspects of insecticide use on human health.

In addition to the feedback oscillators described above, which use two-port amplifying active elements such as transistors and op amps, linear oscillators can also be built using one-port ( two terminal ) devices with negative resistance, such as magnetron tubes, tunnel diodes and Gunn diodes.

Before the widespread use of non-linear editing systems, the initial editing of all films was done with a positive copy of the film negative called a film workprint ( cutting copy in UK ) by physically cutting and pasting together pieces of film, using a splicer and threading the film on a machine with a viewer such as a Moviola, or " flatbed " machine such as a K .- E .- M. or Steenbeck.

In the past, the use of a film positive ( not the original negative ) allowed the editor to do as much experimenting as he or she wished, without the risk of damaging the original.

MCFCs use lithium potassium carbonate salt as an electrolyte, and at high temperatures, this salt melts into a molten state that allows for the movement of charge ( in this case, negative carbonate ions ) within the cell.

One way to find that analytic continuation is to use Euler's integral for positive arguments and extend the domain to negative numbers by repeated application of the recurrence formula,

In the film, Dr. Cid attempts to create a " waveform " from the positive energy signature of the Earth's spirit, in order to combat the films antagonists, the negative energy " Phantoms ", through use of phase inversion canceling.

The General Assembly cannot make binding resolutions, only ' recommendations ', but through its adoption of the " Uniting for Peace " resolution ( A / RES / 377 A ), of 3 November 1950, the Assembly declared that it has the power to authorize the use of force, under the terms of the UN Charter, in cases of breaches of the peace or acts of aggression, provided that the Security Council, owing to the negative vote of a permanent member, fails to act to address the situation.

Early German use of the term judenchristlich (" Jewish-Christian "), in a decidedly negative sense, can be found in the late writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, who emphasized what he saw as neglected aspects of continuity between the Jewish world view and that of Christianity.

… British hackers mostly learned / kluhj / orally, use it in a restricted negative sense and are at least consistent.

In 1917, Albert Einstein established the theoretical foundations for the laser and the maser in the paper Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung ( On the Quantum Theory of Radiation ); via a re-derivation of Max Planck ’ s law of radiation, conceptually based upon probability coefficients ( Einstein coefficients ) for the absorption, spontaneous emission, and stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation ; in 1928, Rudolf W. Ladenburg confirmed the existences of the phenomena of stimulated emission and negative absorption ; in 1939, Valentin A. Fabrikant predicted the use of stimulated emission to amplify “ short ” waves ; in 1947, Willis E. Lamb and R. C. Retherford found apparent stimulated emission in hydrogen spectra and effected the first demonstration of stimulated emission ; in 1950, Alfred Kastler ( Nobel Prize for Physics 1966 ) proposed the method of optical pumping, experimentally confirmed, two years later, by Brossel, Kastler, and Winter.

However, by 1956 the term " lesbian " had such a negative meaning that the DOB refused to use it as a descriptor, choosing " variant " instead.

The problematic case ( when n is negative ) demonstrates a use of ML's exception system.

Driving impairment tests done in the Netherlands that have shown morphine to have the least negative effects on cognitive ability on a number of mental tasks also suggest morphines use in OST may allow for better psychological functioning and engagement in society.

President Ortega's decision to support radical regimes such as Iran and Cuba, his harsh rhetoric against the United States and capitalism, and his use of government institutions to persecute political enemies and their businesses, has had a negative effect on perceptions of country risk, which by some accounts has quadrupled since he assumed office.

The use of fossil fuels such as petroleum can have a negative impact on Earth's biosphere, releasing pollutants and greenhouse gases into the air and damaging ecosystems through events such as oil spills.