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Anagogical
Used in the phrase "sense anagogical" adjective from the Greek (elevation).
It appoints theology (written patristic and scholastic ) sense the deepest and most hidden of the Scriptures. Encrypted symbols, meaning anagogical leads to the divine and therefore can not be analyzed by a commentator.
Hierarchically in four senses of Scripture , it comes last, after the literal meaning, allegorical and tropological (or moral).
By extension, literary criticism, "the interpretation anagogical" is the one trying to go beyond the literal or immediate text.
In philosophy, in Leibniz , "the induction anagogical" is the one trying to trace a root cause.
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