doctrine of analogy

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doctrine of analogy - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  doctrine of analogy
      n 1: the religious belief that between creature and creator no
           similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity
           is always greater; any analogy between God and humans will
           always be inadequate [syn: doctrine of analogy,
           analogy] [ant: apophatism, cataphatism]