Grammatical subject See LOGICAL SUBJECT.

Grammaticality intuitions See INTUITION.

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

Great chain of being See PRINCIPLE OF PLENITUDE.

Great Learning See TA-HSÜEH.

Greatest happiness principle See UTILITARIANISM.

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...

Ha-Levi Judah (c.1075–1141), Spanish Jewish philosopher and poet. Born in Toledo,...

Habermas Jürgen (b.1929), German philosopher and social theorist, a leading representative...

Haecceity (from Latin haec, 'this'), (1) loosely, thisness; more specifically, an...

Haeckel Ernst (1834–1919), German zoologist, an impassioned adherent of Darwin's theory...

Halldén-complete See COMPLETENESS.

Hallucination See PSEUDOHALLUCINATION.

Hallucination, argument from See PERCEPTION.

Halting problem See COMPUTABILITY.

Hamann Johann Georg (1730–88), German philosopher. Born and educated in Königsberg,...

Hamilton William (1788–1856), Scottish philosopher and logician. Born in Glasgow and...