Editing Agnosticism (section)

==Ignosticism==
A related concept is [[ignosticism]], the view that a coherent definition of a deity must be put forward before the question of the existence of a deity can be meaningfully discussed. If the chosen definition is not coherent, the ignostic holds the [[theological noncognitivism|noncognitivist]] view that the existence of a deity is meaningless or empirically untestable.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.strongatheism.net/library/atheology/argument_from_noncognitivism/ |title=The Argument From Non-Cognitivism |access-date=October 1, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429162223/http://www.strongatheism.net/library/atheology/argument_from_noncognitivism/ |archive-date=April 29, 2014 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref> [[Alfred Ayer|A.&nbsp;J. Ayer]], [[Theodore Drange]], and other philosophers see both atheism and agnosticism as incompatible with ignosticism on the grounds that atheism and agnosticism accept the statement "a deity exists" as a meaningful proposition that can be argued for or against.<ref>Ayer, ''Language'', 115: "There can be no way of proving that the existence of a God&nbsp;... is even probable.&nbsp;... For if the existence of such a god were probable, then the proposition that he existed would be an empirical hypothesis. And in that case it would be possible to deduce from it, and other empirical hypotheses, certain experimental propositions which were not deducible from those other hypotheses alone. But in fact this is not possible."</ref><ref name="Drange">Drange, ''Atheism''{{full citation needed|date=April 2024}}</ref>