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.