Brand Blanshard
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LOCATION: New Haven, CT, United States
Professor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1945–61. Author of The Nature of Thought; Reason and Analysis.
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Rationalism, in Western philosophy, the view that regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge. Holding that reality itself has an inherently logical structure, the rationalist asserts that a class of truths exists that the intellect can grasp directly. There are, according to the…
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