What you are asking for does not make sense.
Remember that only the name does not identify the method. Objects respond to these messages (or not); the method does not exist alone, only as part of an object (or class).
Without an object, you cannot tell from it that a hypothetical message will be returned to the object.
ETA: How can you edit the attributes of something but not have an object to edit to examine its properties? It seems that you have a mistake somewhere else.
I know about method_getReturnTypeObjective-C runtime, but it sounds like redundant for what I need.
. (KVC- @property), , . (@property), property_getAttributes.