greatest happiness principle See UTILITARIANISM.

Great Learning See TA-HSÜEH.

Greek Skepticism See SKEPTICS.

Green T(homas) H(ill) (1836–82), British absolute idealist and social philosopher. The...

Gregory I Saint, called Gregory the Great (c.540–604), a pope and Roman...

Gregory of Nyssa Saint (335–98), Greek theologian and mystic who tried to reconcile...

Gregory of Rimini (c.1300–58), Italian philosopher and monk. He studied in Italy, England,...

Grelling’s paradox See SET-THEORETIC PARADOXES.

Grice H. P(aul) (1913–88), English philosopher whose early work concerned perception...

Groot, Huigh de See GROTIUS.

Grosseteste Robert (c.1168–1253), English theologian who began life on the bottom...

Grotius Hugo, in Dutch, Huigh de Groot (1583– 1645), Dutch humanist,...

ground rule See THEMA.

grue paradox a paradox in the theory of induction, according to which...

Grundnorm See BASIC NORM.

guise theory a system developed by Castañeda to resolve a number of...

God’s essence See Aquinas's Summa theologiae I,. q.2,a.1,c. See also ANALYTIC –...