L'assertion positive comme conjecture de l'autre dans l'altérité et l'influence eckartienne chez Nicolas de Cues.

Nicholas of Cusa (1401-11 August 1464) assumes essentially the Erigenian and Alanian thesis of the incognoscibility of God and the quiddity of things. He develops and deepens the awareness of the superiority of negation about the affirmation in divinis which had enabled Medieval Neoplatonism to develop a semantic theory of language in clear break with the Aristotelian triptych which establishes the need of a correspondence between thing, thought and sign: according to Nicholas of Cusa, the essence of language is in the production of a meaning that can be entirely independent from the possibility of apprehending its object. The present research intends to show that the thesis of divine incognoscibility is intimately linked to another thesis of an epistemological order that radically decrees that all affirmative proposition is a conjecture about reality and that our mind is unable to adequately reach the truth. There is no certain human knowledge: the quiddity of things which determines their true essences is inaccessible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]