How do I know that I can't comprehend God? Let's leave God aside. I don't want this topic to become yet another religious war on God's existence nor I want to explain universe by some sort of deity.
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Shall we just use 'X' instead?
God is ineffable. — Tom Storm
"X is ineffable". How were you able to assign a predicate "ineffable" to X if you assume that X is ineffable?
Ok, we might say that if X is actually ineffable then by saying "X is ineffable" we are not talking about X, but, let's say, about a conception or an image (or our own fantasy if you wish) of X. Let's call that conception/image/fantasy/thought a fantasy-X. So we are saying something about fantasy-X and therefore fantasy-X is not ineffable. But if we are having in mind fantasy-X as we say X then to say "X is ineffable" is the same as to say that "fantasy-X is ineffable" which is not true.
But I must admit that I haven't properly separated predicates "incomprehensible" and "ineffable". Let's allow X to be comprehensible but ineffable. Then someone can actually think about X. We shall even allow to name that X. So someone can have X in mind and even say 'X' (as long as 'X' remains just a name and is not used as or accompanied by a predicate).
Even if this is the case, how can someone use predicate "ineffable" to an ineffable X? Once again, X is not ineffable if someone can at least say that "X is ineffable". So it seems to me that If X is truly ineffable then we even lack a proper predicate to name X's "ineffableness".
"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." (L. W., Tractatus ยง7). Or should we say in this case - "whereof one cannot speak, thereof one always remains silent".