Gnosticism a dualistic religious and philosophical movement in the early centuries...

Goal-directed system See COMPUTER THEORY,. CYBERNETIC.

Göckel, Rudolph See GOCLENIUS.

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

God See MARTINEAU. See DIVINE ATTRIBUTES, PHILOSOPHY OF RELI -. GIO.

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

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

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

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

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

Good, common See COMMON 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.

Grammatical predicate See LOGICAL SUBJECT.