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Brand Blanshard
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LOCATION: New Haven, CT, United States

BIOGRAPHY

Professor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1945–61. Author of The Nature of Thought; Reason and Analysis.

Primary Contributions (1)
Noam Chomsky
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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