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(2010) Dialogues in the philosophy of religion, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
The term "ineffable", meaning inexpressible, transcending description, beyond the scope of our human concepts, is good semantic currency with a respectable Latin lineage. But today, because of such similar-sounding but very different-meaning words and phrases as "effing" and "the eff word", we may well be slightly uncomfortable with "ineffable" and ready for an alternative. I suggest "transcategorial", that is, outside or beyond the range of our categories of thought, and I shall use both terms in what follows.
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Hick, J. (2010). Ineffability: a response to William Rowe and Christopher Insole, in Dialogues in the philosophy of religion, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 76-89.
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