Apophatic statements are crucial to much modern theologians in Orthodox Christianity ( see Vladimir Lossky, John Meyendorff, John S. Romanides and Georges Florovsky ).

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.

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 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

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.

The term convention is also used in international law to refer to certain formal statements of principle such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Hezbollah leaders have also made numerous statements calling for the destruction of the state of Israel, which they refer to as the " Zionist entity ".

By analogy the same term is used in politics and public affairs to refer to the informal process by which statements, designed to refute or negate specific arguments put forward by opponents, are deployed in the media.

Both terms refer to systems of concepts that are of high importance to a certain community, making statements concerning the supernatural or sacred.

Russell and Whitehead attempted to solve these problems in Principia Mathematica by putting statements into a hierarchy of types, wherein a statement cannot refer to itself, but only to statements lower in the hierarchy.

Most commentators consider that Jesus ' statements refer to the specific group of Pharisees he was addressing, or possibly the Pharisaic movement as a whole, but not to the Jewish people as a whole, which would have included Jesus and all his followers.

# Many statements in the works of the Rishonim ( medieval commentors who preceded De Leon ) refer to Medrashim that we are not aware of.

Keynes was on occasion heard making statements which could be perceived as racist: for example, he would use the word " niggers " to refer to black people in casual conversations.

Unless otherwise noted, statements in this article refer to Standard Finnish, which is based on the dialect spoken in Häme Province in central south Finland.

# The semantic thesis: The primary semantic role of moral predicates ( such as " right " and " wrong ") is to refer to moral properties ( such as rightness and wrongness ), so that moral statements ( such as " honesty is good " and " slavery is unjust ") purport to represent moral facts, and express propositions that are true or false ( or approximately true, largely false, and so on ).

However, some of those statements in a theory refer to other unobserved entities and properties such as " charge " or " spin ".

The Akali Dal members demanded that the constitution should remove any ambiguous statements that uses the word Hindu to refer to the Sikhs.

We can refer to the resolution approved by the United nations General Assembly on December 12, 1975, saying " having heard the statements of the representatives of Portugal, as the Administering Power, concerning developments in Portuguese Timor ... deplores the military intervention of the armed forces of Indonesia in Portuguese Timor and calls upon the Government of Indonesia to withdraw without delay its armed forces from the Territory ... and recommends that the Security Council take urgent action to protect the territorial integrity of Portuguese Timor and the inalienable right of its people to self-determination ".

In logic, necessity and sufficiency refer to the implicational relationships between statements.

The Korean Central News Agency and the Voice of Korea sometimes refer to statements by Juche study groups in other countries.

It is used pejoratively to refer to the idea that statements which are repeated over and over become conventional wisdom regardless of whether or not they are true.

The title " zeroth law of thermodynamics " began to appear in textbooks to refer to statements of this kind, though now stripped of their explicit reference to heat ; their implicit dependence on the notion of heat could not be removed because they rely on the concept of thermal equilibrium which in turn relies on the concept of transfer of heat by conduction or radiation, the presence or absence of which must be empirically recognizable in order to make the concept of thermal equilibrium empirically recognizable.

Theoretical statements ( T-statements ) have their meaning fixed by their function within a theory and aren't truth evaluable, e. g. " the solution is acidic ", whereas theoretical terms ( T-terms ) have their meaning fixed by their systematic function within a theory and don't refer to any observable thing or property, e. g. " acidic ".

John Stachel points out, that these letters were written in their student days, at least four years before the 1905 papers, and some of the instances in which Einstein used " our " in relation to scientific work refer to their diploma dissertations, for which they both chose the same topic ( experimental studies of heat conduction ), and that Einstein used " our " in rather general statements, while he invariably used " I " and " my " when he recounted specific ideas he was working on: " the letters to Marić show Einstein referring to his studies, his work on the electrodynamics of moving bodies over a dozen times ... as compared to one reference to our work on the problem of relative motion.

We refer to these statements as the weak and strong BPI.

The following statements refer to the first player, assuming that both players use an optimal strategy.

* Some refer to the Virgin Mary as theological statements about her queenship.

* Name-Field: The name field identifies a particular statement so that other statements and the system can refer to it.

" This confusion over the word " pada " explains why some have mistakenly held that the reference to 108 statements in the Lankavatara refer to the 108 steps that many temples have.

In France, the Parlement de Paris, with its strong upper bourgeois background and Jansenist sympathies, opened the pressure to expel the Jesuits from France in the spring of 1761, and the published excerpts from Jesuit writings, the Extrait des assertions, provided anti-Jesuit ammunition ( though, arguably, many of the statements the Extrait contained were made to look worse than they were through judicious omission of context ).

Although the context is often overlooked, and the quotation usually chopped off, one of Sherman's most famous statements about his hard-war views arose in part from the racial attitudes summarized above.

Therefore, as a historical method, he refuses to examine statements outside of their historical context: the discursive formation.

In their original context, the statements of the law contained in these fragments were just private opinions of legal scholars-although some juristic writings had been privileged by Theodosius II's Law of Citations in 426.

It is possible to perpetrate a hoax by making only true statements using unfamiliar wording or context, such as in the Dihydrogen monoxide hoax.

In 2008, U. S. District Judge Peter Leisure dismissed the other suit that alleged slander, because " The context in which Dunne's statements were made demonstrates that they were part of a discussion about ' speculation ' in the media and inaccurate media coverage.

In this context, propositions are also called sentences, statements, statement forms, formulas, and well-formed formulas, though these terms are usually not synonymous within a single text.

In the virtual absence of other panel paintings from the period in question, it is difficult to make firm statements about the stylistic context of the portraits.

Writing in dissent, Justice Harlan argued that the statements cited by Justice Black had uniformly been in the context of the Great Compromise.

Meaningful statements about power must always specify the context in which the resources may ( or may not ) be converted into behavior.

The Court then clarified language from previous free speech clause cases, including Roth v. United States, Beauharnais v. Illinois, and Chaplinsky, which suggested that certain categories of expression are " not within the area of constitutionally protected speech ," cautioning that such statements " must be taken in context.

) In this context, " practice " relates to official state practice and therefore includes formal statements by states.

The difference between the kind of explanation he rejects and those that he accepts depends on his understanding of transparency: from his earliest paper to the most recent Nagel has always insisted that a prior context is required to make identity statements plausible, intelligible and transparent.

It was in the context of his Liberal party activities that in 1881 Green gave what became one of his most famous statements of his liberal political philosophy, the Lecture on Liberal Legislation and Freedom of Contract .< ref >

An explanation is a set of statements constructed to describe a set of facts which clarifies the causes, context, and consequences

To provide some context to the above statements, one modern writer has said that a fundamental principle of orthodoxy in the patristic period was recognizing " the history of the universe as the history of divinization and salvation.

Such statements are nevertheless approximations ; whether they are acceptable in any particular context or application depends on the applicable requirements, in particular in terms of accuracy.

Those colleagues closest to Lin noted that Lin avoided talking about the Cultural Revolution in any context other than public speeches, and when pressed would only make very brief and ambiguous statements.

Others argue that this view results from an excessively broad interpretation of statements that had a narrower sense in their original context, and from contrasting the infallible documents of the ecumenical council with papal statements that were not infallible because they were not addressed to the whole church.

To provide some context to the above statements, one modern, non-LDS, Christian writer has said that " a fundamental principle of orthodoxy in the patristic period was recognizing the history of the universe as the history of divinization and salvation.

They also argue that statements regarding mutilation and amputation in the " Respect for bodily integrity " paragraph are made within the context of kidnapping, hostage taking or torture, and that if circumcision is defined as an amputation, any removal of tissue or follicle, regardless of its effect on functional integrity, could be considered a violation of moral law.

Flood said the judiciary must have the right to consider each individual case as appropriate and that McDowell should consider the context of his remarks before making statements.

He begins such statements with " The dead do not ..." According to Kai, the dead do not respond to context, the dead are rarely positive about things, the dead do not think about acting, the dead do not have opinions, the dead do not make suggestions ( usually ), the dead do not eat, the dead do not squeeze and please, the dead cannot be seduced, the dead are easily fooled, and the dead do not poo.

" We did not present the full context of those statements and we should have ," Schultz said " No doubt about it, it was a mistake and we regret the error ... we should not have included it in our coverage.