ABSTRACT
“Verifiable” is not a quality of the statement, but instead a statement one can make about the relationship with the world that can later be changed. The line between verifiable and not verifiable is a sub-set of changeable and not changeable, as all are statements that involve people and their position in the world. And other thinkers who conflate verifiability with meaningfulness, as the logical positivists after Wittgenstein also did, insist that science is distinguished from religion or ethics by being verifiable like statements about the keys. But once again the distinction is something people make, which means the making is crucial, and the basis for the distinction is their belief that statements about the objective world are verifiable, even if not now or by them. So it is quite true that a statement of the form of “God is Merciful” is unverifiable.
