However, he also acknowledges that despite the appearance of unity each of the world's religions make radically different truth-claims concerning the world and Ultimate Reality. Hick's proposal is that in the first instance religious language is non-cognitive when it speaks of Ultimate Reality and relative to the individual's standpoint. Thus Hick promotes a similar view of religious language as Hare, Braithwaite and Cupitt in that religious language is being used to effect a change in the believer rather than make any absolute truth-claims and statements of fact about religion and the universe. In his early work Wittgenstein believed that language stated 'facts' about reality but as his thought developed he began to view language as that which is socially constructed. Thus, according to Wittgenstein, religious language needs to be discussed from an insider's perspective.
Language is given meaning and constructed by communities.
To speak of God's goodness is to speak of a community. Thus, according to Wittgenstein, to say 'God exists' is not open to verification but merely expresses the belief of the religious community that believes it. Certainly Wittgenstein has pointed the way in recognising that religious language is set within a specific context and that this context should be taken into account when seeking to verify religious statements.