ABSTRACT
In this chapter I shall consider the challenge to the factual meaningfulness of attempted statements about God posed by the verifi ability criterion of factual meaningfulness. I shall fi rst lay out the criterion and something of its history, and then shape it into its most coherent form. I shall consider what can be said for and against it. Then I shall examine its application to talk about God. This will involve considering both whether attempted statements about God must satisfy the criterion in order to be factually meaningful, and also whether (some) statements about God do satisfy it. The overall conclusion will be that the verifi ability criterion poses no serious threat to the factual meaningfulness of what is said about God.
