The ‘sevenfold predication’, a series of seven statements describing the various angles from which reality can be viewed:
- in some respects it is
- in some respects it is not
- in some respects it is and it is not
- in some respects it is not able to be expressed
- in some respects it is and it is not able to be expressed
- in some respects it is not and is able to be expressed
- in some respects, it is, it is not, it is not able to be expressed.