id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9818 Theological noncognitivism - Wikipedia .html text/html 1849 481 37 Atheism and religion (Criticism of atheism / of religion) Theological noncognitivism is the position that religious language – specifically, words such as "God" – are not cognitively meaningful. For example, a sentence stating that "God is He who created everything, apart from Himself", is seen as circular rather than an irreducible truth. Michael Martin writing from a verificationist perspective concludes that religious language is meaningless because it is not verifiable.[1][2] Smith uses an attribute-based approach in an attempt to prove that there is no concept for God: he argues that there are no meaningful attributes, only negatively defined or relational attributes, making the term meaningless. When asserting the proposition, one can use attributes to at least describe the concept such a cohesive idea is transferred in language. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9818.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9818.txt