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Noah Porter ( December 14 , 1811 - March 14 , 1892 ), American educationalist and Philosophical writer, was born in Farmington, Connecticut . He graduated from Yale College in 1831 , and was employed as a Congregational minister in Connecticut and Massachusetts , 1836 to 1846 . He was elected professor of moral philosophy and Metaphysics at Yale in 1846, and from 1871 to 1886 he was president of the college. He edited several editions of Webster's Dictionary , and wrote on education. He was a frequent visitor to the Adirondack Mountains of New York , and in 1875 was among the first recorded to make an ascent of the peak later named Porter Mountain in his honor. His best-known work is ''The Human Intellect'', with an ''Introduction upon Psychology and the Human Soul'' ( 1868 ), comprehending a general history of Philosophy , and following in part the "common-sense" philosophy of the Scottish school, while accepting the Kantian doctrine of intuition, and declaring the notion of design to be '' A Priori ''. He died in New Haven . REFERENCES |
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