Apophatic statements refer to transcendence in this context, as opposed to cataphasis referring to immanence.

Apophatic movements in Hinduism are visible in the works of Shankara, a philosopher of Advaita Vedanta school of Indian philosophy, and Bhartṛhari, a grammarian.

This Apophatic Theology ( Negative theology ) mode of thinking about God is found throughout Gnosticism, Vedantic Hinduism, Platonic and Aristotelean theology, and Eastern Orthodox theology as well.

* A deity's aspect ; see Apophatic theology

Whereas with rational thought one uses logic to understand, one does the opposite with God ( see also Apophatic theology ).

Apophatic theology ( from Greek ἀπόφασις from ἀπόφημι – apophēmi, " to deny ")— also known as negative theology or via negativa ( Latin for " negative way ")— is a theology that attempts to describe God, the Divine Good, by negation, to speak only in terms of what may not be said about the perfect goodness that is God.

This is in keeping with the church's use of Apophatic theology, as described by Dionysius the Areopagite and others.

** Apophatic theology – negative theology which seeks to describe God by negation ( e. g., immutable, impassible ).

Apophatic theology often is contrasted with " Cataphatic theology.

# Apophatic ( imageless, stillness, and wordlessness ) -- e. g., The Cloud of the Unknowing, Meister Eckhart ; and

Apophatic theology found its most influential expression in works such as those of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Maximus the Confessor ( Pseudo-Dionysius is quoted by Thomas Aquinas 1, 760 times in his Summa Theologica ).

No questions, statements, or explanations are permitted -- only commands.

Of types of message listed in Table 1, commands and statements are the only ones sent through the vertical network shown in Figure 3.

His statements about sports and exercises of a physical nature are suggestive, but inconclusive.

Others have so-called development plans, but some of these are little more than lists of projects collected from various ministries while others are statements of goals without analysis of the actions required to attain them.

One species is restricted to statements which are neither explicit nor precise regarding a particular person, place, time or thing.

While this influence is a complex matter, depending upon personality factors in the individual as well as upon his social-class experience, there probably are some general statements about social-class background and educational policy that can be made with a fair degree of truth.

Illustrations of the use of continuation cards are included throughout the examples illustrating the various statements.

When the index words or electronic switches are reserved because of actual usage in the statements described above, the position or order of the statements within the program is not important ; ;

Declarative statements are never executed in the object program and should be separated from the program instruction area, placed preferably at its beginning or end.

The DIOCS, DTF, and DUF statements are used when required by the Input/Output Control System.

Now the original absent sitter must decide whether the statements are meaningful to him.

Conversely, experimenters would consider as impressive such statements as the following, which, if they turned out to be hits, are so unusual as to be really significant:

In the parapsychology foundation's long-range experiment, readings are made by a variety of sensitives for a large number of cooperating sitters, trying to throw light on this question of the significance of mediumistic statements.

It is very important indeed, in the field of extra-sensory perception and its relation to the survival hypothesis, to know whether the statements are actually only those which any intuitive person might venture and an eager sitter attach to himself.

and ( 3 ) in so doing, frees itself to give appropriate emphasis to the event Jesus Christ by means of statements that, from Bultmann's point of view, are mythological.

An argument of this form is invalid, i. e., the conclusion can be false even when statements 1 and 2 are true.

Pseudocode, flowcharts and control tables are structured ways to express algorithms that avoid many of the ambiguities common in natural language statements.

If the affiant is a party in the case, the affiant's opponent may be successful in having the affidavit admitted as evidence, as statements by a party-opponent are admissible through an exception to the hearsay rule.

There are many other equivalent statements of the axiom of choice.

Similarly, all the statements listed below which require choice or some weaker version thereof for their proof are unprovable in ZF, but since each is provable in ZF plus the axiom of choice, there are models of ZF in which each statement is true.

" Such conditional statements are provable in ZF when the original statements are provable from ZF and the axiom of choice.

In this case, commonsense statements are statements that are so crucial to keeping the account coherent that they are all but impossible to deny.

The court in Florida had found that Leuchter had " misquoted the statements " contained in an important affidavit and had " inaccurately surmised " a crucial premise of his conclusion.

" One of the most crucial elements of a convincing cold reading is a subject eager to make connections or reinterpret vague statements in any way that will help the reader appear to make specific predictions or intuitions.

As well as sharing responsibility for worldwide correspondence and where possible organising face-to-face meetings and discussions with the political elements with whom the IBRP come into contact, the IBRP has issued several international statements and distributed them in various languages at crucial points over recent years.

Less known is Bernard's literary work, comprising plays, poetry, and art criticism as well as art historical statements that contain first hand information on the crucial period of modern art to which Bernard had contributed.

It was no longer the sole reporter on republican statements and interviews yet it still played a crucial role in challenging misrepresentations of the republican message by larger media outlets.

The police accepted all of Christie's statements as factual without bothering to probe further, and indeed, he was the crucial witness at the trial of Evans.

The independence of external auditors is crucial to a correct and thorough appraisal of an entity's financial controls and statements.

Additionally, Elihu's first spoken words are a confession of his youthful status, being much younger than the three canonical friends, including a claim to be speaking because he cannot bear to remain silent ; it has been suggested that this interesting statement may have been symbolic of a " younger " ( that is to say, later and interpolating ) writer, who has written Elihu's sermon to respond to what he views as morally and theologically scandalous statements being made within the book of Job, and creating the literary device of Elihu to provide what seemed to be a faith-based response to further refute heresy and provide a counter-argument, a need partially provided by God's ambiguous and unspecific response to Job at the end of the book.

The only statements in the Tanakh about the status of a fetus state that killing an unborn infant does not have the same status as killing a born human being, and mandates a much lesser penalty ( Exodus 21: 22-25 ).

He acted in much the way he portrays management consultants in the comic strip, with an arrogant manner and bizarre suggestions, such as comparing mission statements to broccoli soup.

The refusal to swear oaths or take up arms came to be a much more important part of his public statements.

On much recommendation I immediately sent for a copy of the “ Dabistan ”, in which I found many statements corroborative of the fact, that the eastern saints are all self-hypnotisers, adopting means essentially the same as those which I had recommended for similar purposes.

When Franz Halder, the Chief of the Army General Staff, heard of the state of the Kriegsmarine, and its plan for the invasion, he noted in his diary, on 28 July 1940, " If that plan is true, all previous statements by the navy were so much rubbish and we can throw away the whole plan of invasion ".

Another, more psychological factor that has played a part here is that a long-standing mutual distrust or antipathy felt between former East Berliners and West Berliners ( Ossis and Wessis according to the well-known slang terms ), is still very much in evidence in the city and elsewhere in Germany, and bold civil engineering projects and architectural statements are not going to make it go away by themselves.

Religious beliefs were deeply instilled in the people of the time, which gave much influence to the clergy, and the prosecution of poets who made statements contradictory to religious messages were prevalent, as was the case with Hafiz ( whose house was raided several times, and was forced to burn some of his more liberal poems ) and Ferdowsi ( who was branded a heretic and was not permitted to be buried in the Muslims graveyard ).

" The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights states that: " Although it is true that much of the friction between the Government and the churches arises from positions that are directly or indirectly linked to the political situation of the country, it is also true that statements by high government officials, official press statements, and the actions of groups under the control of the Government have gone beyond the limits within which political discussions should take place and have become obstacles to certain specifically religious activities.

"(...) Aristotle sounds much more like a genuine correspondence theorist in the Categories ( 12b11, 14b14 ), where he talks of " underlying things " that make statements true and implies that these " things " ( pragmata ) are logically structured situations or facts ( viz., his sitting, his not sitting ).

Later in April, Gen. Sherman, without consulting Washington, concluded an agreement with Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston to effect the latter's surrender, believing it to be consistent with Lincoln's recent statements to him at City Point ; Secretary Stanton and Grant quickly surmised the terms were much too lenient.

The WFTU continues to devote much of its energy to organizing conferences, issuing statements and producing educational materials.

Often the high returns lead investors to leave their money in the scheme, leading the promoter not to have to pay out very much to investors ; they simply have to send statements to investors showing them how much they earned.

There were strong differences in these evaluations, with subjects much more likely to interpret statements by the candidate they opposed as contradictory.

He does not speak much, and when he does, his statements are often laconic and blunt.

" When asked for his response to these statements Colin Powell said that " it might have been better for members of Congress who have heard these stories to ask us about the stories before going public with them so we don't make a difficult situation that much more difficult " and he alleged that Aristide " did not democratically govern or govern well ".

Stock valuations, which are often much higher, are based on other considerations related to the business ' operating cash flow, profits and future prospects ; some factors are derived from the accounting statements.

In both the Soviet Union and overseas, the film shocked audiences, but not so much for its political statements as for its use of violence, which was considered graphic by the standards of the time.

From the statements of Walter Burley ( a 14th-century monk ) in his De vita et moribus philosophorum the text of Diogenes seems to have been much fuller than that which we now possess.

Plutarch was writing over 400 years after Epaminondas's death, and is therefore very much a secondary source, but he often explicitly names his sources, which allows some degree of verification of his statements.

Both Cartman's commentary and the commentary resulting in response to his actions have been interpreted as statements Parker and Stone are attempting to make to the viewing public, and these opinions have been subject to much critical analysis in the media and literary world.

On 21 October 1969, The Beatles ' press office issued statements denying the rumour, deeming it " a load of old rubbish " and saying that " the story has been circulating for about two years — we get letters from all sorts of nuts but Paul is still very much with us.