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PORTER, NOAH (1811–1892)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 117 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PORTER, See also:NOAH (1811–1892) , See also:American educationalist and philosophical writer, was See also:born in Farmington, See also:Connecticut, on the 14th of See also:December 1811. He graduated at Yale See also:College, 1831, and laboured as a Congregational See also:minister in Connecticut and See also:Massachusetts, 1836–1846. He was elected See also:professor of moral See also:philosophy and See also:metaphysics at Yale in 1846, and from 1871 to 1886 he was See also:president of the college. He edited several See also:editions of Noah See also:Webster's See also:English See also:dictionary, and wrote on See also:education, &c. His best-known See also:work is The Human See also:Intellect, with an Introduction upon See also:Psychology and the Human Soul (1868), comprehending a See also:general See also:history of philosophy, and following in See also:part the " See also:common-sense " philosophy of the Scottish school, while accepting the Kantian See also:doctrine of See also:intuition, and declaring the notion of See also:design to be a priori. He died in New Haven on the 4th of See also:March 1892.

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