 Neti neti (negative language) literally means “not (this), not (this)”. Its negation targets the discontinuity aspect by stripping away all qualifications to personal identity and the external world. This process removes false superimpositions of body, senses, and mind previously attributed to brahman. Negative language attempts to avoid defining absolute reality as a thing in the world. It denies any nameability of brahman, its grammatical object. This is directly tied to brahman’s unobjectifiable status, for the hermeneutical premise of Śaṅkara’s negative language is the inability of predicates to apply to absolute reality. To give positive predicates would reify the absolute to a finite entity (on this see BṛUBh 2.3.6).