Apoha: Buddhist Nominalism and Human Cognition - Paperbackby Mark Siderits (Editor), Tom Tillemans (Editor), Arindam Chakrabarti (Editor) When we understand that something is a pot, is it because of one property that all pots share? This seems unlikely, but without this common essence, it is difficult to see how we could teach someone to use the word "pot" or to see something as a pot. The Buddhist apoha theory tries to resolve this dilemma, first, by rejecting properties such as "potness" and, then, by