Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Language

• What is cognitive language?

  Statements that can be proven true or false through logic or experience. For example, the statement 'the Houses of Parliament are located in Westminster' is cognitive because it can be proven true or false by visiting. This can apply to 'absurd' statements too, no matter how wild the claim is it can be proven true or false
• Which group of Christians would believe that religious language is cognitive?

  Conservatives
• What is non-cognitive language?

  Language that is not factual; conveys symbols
• Which group of Christians would believe that religious language is non-cognitive?

  Liberals
• What are the problems with verifying religious language?

  1) it cannot be proven true or false

  2) anthropomorphises God

  3) religious language is not univocal, it is equivocal and cannot be true understood