Note on language and the concept 'God'

God is not a concept permitting of instantiation, and so has no exemplars. The divine is not a kind of entity but an attribute; it can be predicated of certain objects, experiences, places or times. This predication is relational, and God is one name of what the relationship is with. Empirical concepts are given as terms that refer to thinks by way of properties they can be observed to have. They are correlations between what is given in language and what is given in perceptual experience. What God is related to is us, and our experiences as they can be thought in relation to the contingent sense of the sacred as an in principal exceptional instance of the good, as something more verbal not nominal, that happens and so can be experienced. I think this must be what is behind Hermann Cohen’s idea of God as existing in correlation with humanity.