mysterian

Parliamentary government offers basically two alternatives to the mysterian nature of the American system.

Matthew Yglesias » By Request: The Case for Parliamentarism 2009

But the recent posts here have been largely philosophical in nature – and I'm very amused that the atheist responses have ranged from mixing up agnosticism and positive claims, to mysterian-style speculations that causality may be a myth.

Dawkins and ID 2008

They could go the mysterian route, argue it's all physicalism, but we just don't know how.

Bunny and a Book 2008

And Dennett is not a mysterian, so he's not arguing that this is merely 'the best we can do' and maybe there's a greater difference or maybe there isn't.

Blurring the Line 2007

This “Latin” family of theories is here understood as a less prominently mysterian and more metaphysical part of or outgrowth of the pro-Nicene movement.

Trinity Tuggy, Dale 2009

The positive mysterian holds that the human mind is adequate to understand many truths about God, although it breaks down at a certain stage, when the most profound divinely revealed truths are entertained.

Trinity Tuggy, Dale 2009

In contrast, the positive mysterian holds that the trinitarian doctrine can't be understood because of an abundance of content.

Trinity Tuggy, Dale 2009

The negative mysterian holds that the true doctrine of the Trinity is not understandable because it is too poor in intelligible content for it to positively seem either consistent or inconsistent to us.

Trinity Tuggy, Dale 2009

Just because something seems complicated or mysterious doesn't mean we should give up on understanding and rush instead to some mysterian answer:

The Guardian World News 2009

Similarly, his mysterian reverence for emergent properties in complex systems just stunningly misses the point: It’s as if some budding economist, upon hearing about the coordinating power of the “invisible hand,” constructed a shrine and made burnt offerings to it.

Logos vs. Legos 2006