Traditionally, 'apophatic theology has been described as a way of 'negation' and in this has been set opposite 'kataphatic' theology as a way of 'affirmation'. Kataphatic' theology is the necessary context in which 'apophasis' can take place. Unsaying is a response to a problem. Names by their very nature delimit. To name something I create a boundary between it and what it is not.
Names are finite.
Our consciousness is conditioned by the use of names to see delimited entities or beings. Thus, does the ultimate become a 'some-thing' amongst other things. I can use language against itself. If no single proposition can be made of the unlimited, I must use two, the second statement frees the first from fixity. For example, to say it is beyond marks it off from within.