 "Cataphatic" comes from the Greek word κατάφασις "kataphasis" meaning "affirmation," coming from κατά "kata" (an intensifier) and φάναι "phanai" ("to speak").To speak of God or the divine kataphatically is thought by some to be by its nature a form of limiting to God or divine.This was one of the core tenets of the works of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.