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What it means to say such things, I suggest, is that the unique excellence of God as the one strictly universal individual implies a logical/ontological type-difference from from all other individuals, actual or possible (cf. AD: 74, 76). In other words, the point of such statements is that God is by definition an infinite exception. And this is so even if it is and must be true, also, that God cannot simply violate logical/ontological rules if there is to be any rational approach at all to God's existence and nature. Either there is some sense in which what is meant by "God" fulfills rather than violates logical/ontological rules, or the term, as the positivist contends, expresses only nonsense.

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