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OTOH, there is no reason to go along with the idea that denotion (or empirical consequence) is essential to meaning. You could instead use you realisation that you actually can tell the difference between untestable statements to conclude that they are in fact meaningful, whatever warmed-over Logical Positivism may say.
It's not useful to know they are meaningful if you don't know the meaning.
I wouldn't agree with this. Knowing whether or not something is meaningful is potentially quite a lot of information.
You do know the meaning. Knowing the meaning is what tells you there is no denotation. You know there is no King of France because you know what "King" and "France" mean.