Editing Gordon Clark (section)

{{Short description|American philosopher and theologian}}
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{{Infobox philosopher<!-- Philosopher category -->
|region           = [[Western Philosophy]]
|era              = [[20th-century philosophy]]
|name             = Gordon Haddon Clark
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|birth_date       = August 31, 1902
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|death_date       = {{death-date and age|April 9, 1985|August 31, 1902}}
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|school_tradition = [[Calvinist]]<br>[[Presuppositionalism]]<br>[[Christian Philosophy]]
|main_interests   = [[Epistemology]]<br>[[Philosophy of Religion]]
|notable_ideas    = [[Scripturalism]]
}}

'''Gordon Haddon Clark''' (August 31, 1902 &ndash; April 9, 1985) was an American [[philosopher]] and [[Calvinist]] [[theology|theologian]]. He was a leading figure associated with [[presuppositional apologetics]] and was chairman of the Philosophy Department at [[Butler University]] for 28 years. He was an expert in [[Pre-Socratic philosophy|pre-Socratic]] and [[ancient philosophy]] and was noted for defending the idea of propositional revelation against [[empiricism]] and [[rationalism]], in arguing that all truth is [[Propositional knowledge|propositional]]. His [[epistemology|theory of knowledge]] is sometimes called ''scripturalism''.