| From this we can perhaps see in what way Tiantai is able to stipulate at once the self-preserving and the self-overcoming of both holism and apophasis. |
| Mineralization in the F zone is hosted by an apophasis of the porphyry intrusion that reaches surface. |
| Apophasis is really the negation of rationality as a tool for approaching divinity and is the choice of the contemplative way of the mystic path. |
| And if that demands an occasional recourse to a reluctant version of apophasis, so be it. |
| Apophasis transcends both affirmation and negation, refuting in both any possible attainment of understanding beyond the limitation of conceptual analysis. |
| Saint Dionysius offered apophasis and kataphasis as oppositional yet complementary elements in his mystical theology, often termed Via Negativa. |
