Abstract

CEPEDA, Carlos Barbosa. Mystical language and ineffability. Ideas y Valores [online]. 2016, vol.65, suppl.2, pp.31-39. ISSN 0120-0062.  https://doi.org/10.15446/ideasyvalores.v65n2supl.55161.

Why do mystics seek to talk about that which, as they themselves say, it is impossible to talk about? The article analyzes mystical language in pragmatic terms, in order to show how it tries to express what cannot be characterized, which implies distinguishing between saying as characterizing and saying as expressing. According to Chien-Hsin Ho, this difference is possible by indicating the ineffable through imposition-cum-negation, given that indicating does not point to the transcendent but rather to what is immanent in language itself.

Keywords : Chien-Hsin Ho; mystical language; mysticism.

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