If a purely metaphysical God is entirely disconnected from power, knowledge, and goodness, the resulting concept is functionally indistinguishable from atheism, rendering the original claim trivially true but philosophically uninteresting.
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Language that purports to refer beyond the physical world and lacks empirical consequences, which Ayer classifies as not literally significant
trivially true(Elster's characterization of methodological individualism; the author notes the ambiguity matters because Elster derives substantive doctrines from the commitment)
Used by Elster in the vernacular sense of 'platitudinous' rather than the philosophical sense of 'tautologous'