ABSTRACT
Concepts of God An enquiry in applied scientific ontology into the existence or nonexistence of God is not guaranteed to agree with the attitudes of religious faith. We want to know whether God is an individual divine entity, or a host thereof if there are many gods, just as we want to know whether there are numbers, sets or universals. The difference is, among other things, that God is a person, or the gods are supposed to be persons, or at least personifications of natural forces, whereas numbers and everything else in the existence domain other than minds is assumed to be impersonal, non-mental, non-psychological, non-intentional. It is appropriate, therefore, to consider the ontic status of God as a sequel to the ontology of mind.
