Göckel, Rudolph See GOCLENIUS.

Goclenius Rudolphus, in Germany, Rudolf Göckel (1547–1628), German philosopher. After holding...

God, arguments for the existence of See DIVINE. ATTRIBUTES , ENS A SE , PHILOSOPHY OF...

Gödel, Kurt See GÖDEL' S INCOMPLETENESS THEO -. REM.

Gödel numbering See GÖDEL' S INCOMPLETENESS. THEOREM. Gödel's incompleteness theorems, two theorems...

Godfrey of Fontaines (probably before 1250– 1306 or 1309), French philosopher. He taught theology at Paris...

Godwin William (1756–1836), English philosopher, novelist, and political writer. Godwin's main...

Goethe Johann Wolfgang von (1749–1832), German writer often considered the leading...

Goldbach’s conjecture See CHOICE SEQUENCE.

golden mean See ARISTOTLE.

Goldman Alvin I(ra) (b.1938), American philosopher who has made notable contributions...

good See ETHICS.

good, common See COMMON GOOD.

good-making characteristic a characteristic that makes whatever is intrinsically or inherently good,...

Goodman Nelson (1906–98), American philosopher who made seminal contributions to metaphysics,...

Gorgias (c.483–c.376 B.C.), Greek Sophist. A teacher of rhetoric from Leontini...

Göttingen School See NEO-KANTIANISM.

grace, efficacious See ARNAULD.

Gracián y Morales Baltasar (1601–58), Spanish writer, moralist, and a leading literary theorist...

grammar a system of rules specifying a language. The term has...

grammar, categorial See GRAMMAR.

grammar, Montague See GRAMMAR.

grammar, transformational See GRAMMAR.

grammar, universal See GRAMMAR.

grammatical form See LOGICAL FORM.

grammaticality intuitions See INTUITION.

grammatical predicate See LOGICAL SUBJECT.

grammatical subject See LOGICAL SUBJECT.

Gramsci Antonio (1891–1937), Italian political leader whose imprisonment by the Fascists...

great chain of being See PRINCIPLE OF PLENITUDE.