Which linguistic philosopher wrote all God talk is non-sense?
Alfred Jules Ayer: 1) “He believed that religious language was unverifiable and as such literally nonsense. Consequently “There is no God” was for Ayer as meaningless and metaphysical an utterance as “God exists.” Though Ayer could not give assent to the declaration “There is no God,” he was an atheist in the sense that he withheld assent from affirmations of God’s existence. However, in “Language, Truth and Logic” he distinguishes himself from both agnostics and atheists by saying that both these stances take the statement “God exists” as a meaningful hypothesis, which Ayer himself does not. That stance of a person who believes “God” denotes no verifiable hypothesis is sometimes referred to as igtheism (defined in Paul Kurtz, The New Skepticism: Inquiry and Reliable Knowledge, ISBN 0-87975-766-3, page 194)” Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Jules_Ayer 2) “In se