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	Theological noncognitivism Biography on DanceAge
		Theological noncognitivism is the argument that religious language, and specifically words like "God" (capitalized), are not cognitively meaningful.
		Theological noncognitivism can be argued in different ways, depending on one's theory of meaning.
		Theological Noncognitivism Examined, by Steven J. Conifer, is an examination of theological noncognitivism from a skeptical perspective.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Theological_noncognitivism (198 words)

	Glossary of Philosophical Isms Encyclopedia Article @ Ensue.us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		agnosticism – the philosophical view that the truth values of certain claims — particularly theological claims regarding the existence of God, gods, or deities — are unknown, inherently unknowable, or incoherent, and therefore, (some agnostics may go as far to say) irrelevant to life.
		Agnosticism, in both its strong (explicit) and weak (implicit) forms, is necessarily a non-atheist and non-theist position, though an agnostic person may also be either an atheist, a theist, or one who endorses neither position.
		It can be contrasted with vitalism, the philosophical theory that vital forces are active in living organisms, so that life cannot be explained solely by mechanism.
	www.ensue.us /encyclopedia/Glossary_of_philosophical_isms (7310 words)

	Glossary of Philosophical Isms Encyclopedia Article @ Proves.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		More detailed definitions tend to emphasize the idea that natural law, existence and/or the universe (the sum total of all that is was and shall be) is represented or personified in the theological principle of 'God'.
		theological noncognitivism – the argument that religious language, and specifically words like "God" (capitalized), are not cognitively meaningful.
		It is cited as proof of the nonexistence of anything named "God", and therefore is a basis for atheism.
	www.proves.org /encyclopedia/Glossary_of_philosophical_isms (8899 words)

	theologically - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about theologically (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Other branches of theology include comparative religion (the study of the similarities and differences between faiths) and eschatology (the study of the hypothetical end of the world and afterlife).
		Theological attitudes towards other faiths range from exclusivism (that one's own religion is correct and all the others wrong) to the more modern dialogue theology (promoting awareness of other religions) and relativism (arguing that different religions are separate paths to a similar goal).
		Essential to theology is exegesis, the critical study of the particular religion's scriptures.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /theologically (180 words)

	Glossary of philosophical isms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Although the logical positivists held a wide range of beliefs on many matters, they all shared an interest in science and deep skepticism of the theological and metaphysical.
		It can be contrasted with vitalism, the philosophical theory that vital forces are active in living organisms, so that life cannot be explained solely by mechanism.
		theological noncognitivism â“ the argument that religious language, and specifically words like "God" (capitalized), are not cognitively meaningful.
	en.encyclopediahome.com /wiki/Glossary_of_philosophical_isms (9399 words)

	Atheism Encyclopedia Article @ MrsGermany.com (Mrs Germany) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Contrary to the common view of theological agnosticism—the denial of knowledge or certainty of the existence of deities—as a "midway point" between theism and atheism, under this understanding of atheism, many agnostics may qualify as weak atheists (cf.
		However, when theological claims move from the specific and observable to the general and metaphysical, atheistic objections tend to shift from the scientific to the philosophical:
		Another such argument is theological noncognitivism, which holds that religious language, and specifically words like God, is not cognitively meaningful.
	www.mrsgermany.com /encyclopedia/Atheism (7607 words)

	Theological Noncognitivism Examined
		Th eological noncognitivism is usually taken to be the view that the sentence God exists” is cognitively meaningless.
		For if I am correct in asserting that there are few if any theological sentences with regard to which noncognitivism-2 is correct, viz., few if any theological sentences which fail to express propositions, then it is because sentences which fail to express propositions are a rarity generally, assuming such sentences exist at all.
		And since it is only with noncognitivism that we are here concerned, there is no need to explore the issue whether personhood and nonmateriality really are incompatible.
	www.sewanee.edu /philosophy/Journal/Archives/2002/Conifer.htm (5006 words)

	Conifer's Refutation of Noncognitivism Examined
		Noncognitivism, the argument that religious language is meaningless (see our articles on the topic, “The Argument from Non-Cognitivism” and “Process-Based Noncognitivism”), is the most devastating and profound argument against theism and theistic worldviews.
		The point of noncognitivism, as he himself states early on in his article, is to demonstrate that the word “god”; is unintelligible.
		Anyone who wants to attempt refuting noncognitivism must try to give the meaning of the divine attributes he is examining, not appeal to the imagination.
	www.strongatheism.net /library/atheology/conifers_refutation_of_noncognitivism (1038 words)

	On Defending Atheism
		Alternatively, one could say "No, 'God exists' does not express any proposition." Let us call that "(theological) noncognitivism." A third position stays neutral on the matter and declares that there is insufficient data to go one way or the other.
		Let us call the claim that it is true "theism" and let us call the claim that it is false "atheism." A third position stays neutral on the matter and declares that there is insufficient data to go one way or the other.
		Another objection could come from noncognitivism and general agnosticism, claiming that there is no good reason to maintain that the sentence "God exists" expresses a proposition.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/theodore_drange/defending.html (1398 words)

	Ask Us A Question (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		However, such arguments can also be applied to the universe itself - that since time began when the universe did, it is nonsensical to talk about a state "before" the universe which could have caused it, since cause requires time.
		Theological noncognitivism, as used in literature, usually seeks to disprove the god-concept by showing that it is unverifiable and meaningless.
		As a theological defense of this view, one might cite Paul's claim that pagans were without excuse because "since the creation of the world [God's] invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made".
	www.millvalleycaus.com /profile/Existence_of_God (4890 words)

	Process-Based Non-Cognitivism
		MGB is the position that a god’s definition and existence must be accepted a priori, while OGB is the position that the definition and existence of a god is justified by various facts of reality.
		There is a whole class of theological arguments that aim to demonstrate that specific facts of nature prove the existence of a god: we call them “classical arguments”.
		On the vast scope of this argument and noncognitivism in general, I once again invite you to read ‘The Argument from Non-Cognitivism’.
	www.strongatheism.net /library/atheology/process_based_noncognitivism (2567 words)

	Hypography Science Forums - Atheism and Faith
		Depending on who you ask relying soley on relational attributes may or may not be considered a valid method of providing a definition.
		Theological noncognitivism views religous language as ambiguious and free of inherint meaning.
		Thus while the question of God's existence may be considered legitimate, in order for an answer to be given God must first be defined in a satisfactory manner.
	forums.hypography.com /theology-forum/6013-atheism-faith-16.html#pos... (1271 words)

	Divine Motivation Theory - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Widely regarded as one of the foremost figures in contemporary philosophy of religion, Linda Zagzebski has written a new book that will be seen as a major contribution to ethical theory and theological ethics.
		Quite distinct from deontological, consequentialist and teleological virtue theories, this one has a particular theological, indeed Christian, foundation.
		The new theory helps to resolve philosophical problems and puzzles of various kinds: the dispute between cognitivism and non-cognitivism in moral psychology, the claims and counterclaims of realism and anti-realism in the metaphysics of value, and paradoxes of perfect goodness in natural theology, including the problem of evil.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521828805&ss=fro (243 words)

	Noncognitism is farther away from theism than atheism - Message Board - ezboard.com
		In the nineteenth century Charles Bradlaugh defined atheism as noncognitivism.
		The atheist does not say there is no God, but he says "I know not what you mean by God".
		I guess that means noncogniti[VI]sm isn't a word.
	p222.ezboard.com /fatheismfrm20.showMessage?topicID=125.topic (2758 words)

	Meadville Theological School
		The Meadville Theological School was founded in 1844 in Meadville, Pennsylvania.
		Most of the original funding came from a recent convert to Unitarianism, a wealthy businessman named Harm Jan Huidekoper.
		Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School of Christian Education
	www.mispedia.org /Meadville_Theological_School.html (82 words)

	Theological noncognitivism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George H. Smith, in Atheism: The Case Against God (1975), uses an attribute-based approach to prove that the concept "god" has no meaningful attributes, only negatively defined or relational attributes, making it meaningless.
		Smith's position is that noncognitivism leads us to the conclusion that "god does not exist", proving strong atheism.
		This page was last modified 03:36, 5 December 2005.
	88.208.194.172 /wiki/index.php/Theological_noncognitivism (186 words)

	Dissolving the Inerrancy Debate: How Modern Philosphy Shaped the Evangelical View of Scripture
		In this study, Murphy claims that it is the philosophy of the modern period that has caused the present divide between Protestant liberals and conservatives.
		On the academic front, the Evangelical Theological Society requires a yearly affirmation of detailed inerrancy�that �the Bible alone, and the Bible in its entirety, is the Word of God written and is therefore inerrant in the autographs��as a qualification for membership.
		That is, they have oriented their thinking around a set of principles, ideas, and assumptions that serve evangelicals much as institutions, creeds, or denominations have served the church in the past.
	www.luthersem.edu /ctrf/JCTR/Vol06/Perry.htm (7472 words)

	atheism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Theological agnosticism is commonly contrasted with the former, narrower definition, as a position of uncertainty or indecision between atheism and theism; on the other hand, under the latter, broader definition, many agnostics qualify as atheists.
		The former defines atheism positively, as the belief that no gods exist; the latter, however, defines atheism negatively, as the lack of belief in gods.
		Theological noncognitivism, the view that religious language, and specifically words like God, are not cognitively meaningful (cf.
	www.ratemycats.com /wiki/?title=Atheism (5529 words)

	Atheism - Theopedia
		Ignostics commonly hold that statements about religious or other transcendent experiences cannot have any truth value, often because theological statements lack falsifiability, because of an epistemological view that renders the ontological argument nonsensical, or because the terminology being used has not been properly or consistently defined — the latter view is known as theological noncognitivism.
		The use of the word "god" is thus solely a matter of semantics to ignostics, dealing with word use and technicalities rather than with existence and reality.
		Other well-known positive arguments include theological noncognitivism, incoherency arguments (which seek to prove contradictions within the nature of "god"), atheistic teleological arguments, and the Transcendental argument for the non-existence of God.
	www.theopedia.com /Atheist (8462 words)

	boating accessories, marine ultra performance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Theological noncognitivism which is the argument that religious language, and specifically words like "God" (capitalized), are not cognitively meaningful.
		Often considered synonymous with theological noncognitivism, ignosticism is popular among logical positivists such as Rudolph Carnap and A.
		Ayer, who hold that talk of gods is literally nonsense.
	www.boatingaccessoriesiworld.com /wiki3-Atheist (4117 words)

	University of Edinburgh:
		I am particularly interested in the Ash‘ari school, especially during the period of increased interaction with the philosophical tradition.
		The theological works of the highly influential Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, arguably the most prolific Muslim theologian, will fall under this heading.
		“Three Apologetic Stances in al-Tufi: Theological Cognitivism, Noncognitivism, and a Proof of Prophecy from Scriptural Contradiction”, in Journal of Qur’anic Studies (Edinburgh University Press), 8(2), 2006 (forthcoming).
	www.imes.ed.ac.uk /staff/shihadeh.htm (544 words)

	Raw (A)Theology
		As to my own life, I admit heavy exposure to scientists who are Christian, but this was not the case for me in high school, and it I have been making concerted efforts to read from a variety of philosophical, theological, and scientific sources over the last year.
		As to whether my secular/sacred balance of informational sources and social relationships is healthy, I can't help but say that you probably have no idea, and are not positioned to make a judgment (not that you are, I hope).
		These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.
	rawtheology.blogspot.com /index.html (13684 words)

	The Panda's Thumb: ACLU: America's intellectual terrorists?
		The other sense is a generally theistic one where “designed” and “guided” are conceptual honorifics – they’re anthropomorphic shorthand and loose analogies with the design activity of normal naturalistic human designers and guiders, employed because our finite minds cannot generate an adequate linguistic description of the process.
		This sense is essentially one of theological noncognitivism; to say “evolution is guided” is not even to state a choate truth-functional description of the world per se, but to express the speaker’s awe and wonder at the grandeur of the unfolding universe.
		To the biologist it simply means that there is no empirical access to any guiding force; evolution simply meanders across its potential a full 360° depending on the pressures to which a given species (or as Dawkins would have it, a gene) is subject.
	www.pandasthumb.org /archives/2006/02/post_5.html (14456 words)

	Pharyngula: Freethought tag-team wrestling match
		I'm more inclined to taking our human standards for belief at face value: If we've got no evidence for an entity's existence, and no idea of that entity clear enough to even start up an inquiry whose outcome could decide the question, that's an entity I cannot take seriously even as a possibility...
		I think you are all forgetting a key part of the "hard agnostic" position--that it can be synonymous with theological noncognitivism.
		That is to say, in non-philosopher speak, that even asking the question "Is there a God?" doesn't make any sense, and so it makes no sense to answer it--because the question isn't worth taking seriously.
	scienceblogs.com /pharyngula/2006/11/freethought_tagteam_wrestling.php (9372 words)

	Positive Liberty » Blog Archive » Pro-Atheism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		And the Flying Spaghetti Monster will only make one very brief appearance.
		First of all, I believe that the proposition “God exists” is incoherent as regards most of the concepts that are commonly called “God.”; This means that, for most forms of God-belief, I am both a strong atheist and a theological noncognitivist.
		Jason Kuznicki has written a post where he “make[s] the case for atheism as strongly as [he] can.” He argues for two things, strong atheism and theological noncognitivism.
	positiveliberty.com /2006/04/pro-atheism.html (3207 words)

	Wherein a Christian and an Ignostic Come to Blows [Archive] - Sean Hannity Discussion
		This is something I wrote fairly recently in an effort to explain theological noncognitivism; it's not very good, literarily, but I think it nicely illustrates the ignostic position for those who are confused by it.
		The restaurant was relatively full for a Sunday afternoon, but the pair found a table easily enough.
		I would like to say that I believe that humans can not convert anyone only God can.:shhh:
	www.hannity.com /forum/archive/index.php/t-44482.html (1254 words)

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