  In Quodlibet VII, q. 11 Godfrey considers the view of some, presumably Thomas Aquinas, who say that in this life we can know that God is, but not what he is. Godfrey makes a clear but implicit reference to ST I, q. 3, a. 4 where Thomas writes that even when we recognize that God is, the “is” which we understand is not the act of being whereby God subsists in himself, but only that indicating that the proposition “that he is” is true (PB 3.383).