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A major proponent in the popularization of this Universalist and Perennialist interpretation of Advaita Vedanta was Vivekananda, [169] who played a major role in the revival of Hinduism. [170] He was also instrumental in the spread of Advaita Vedanta to the West via the Vedanta Society , the international arm of the Ramakrishna Order .
Communicative language teaching (CLT), or the communicative approach (CA), is an approach to language teaching that emphasizes interaction as both the means and the ultimate goal of study.
Plato is often considered a proponent of extreme realism. Aristotle interested himself with issues of logic, categories, and the creation of meaning. He separated all things into categories of species and genus. He thought that the meaning of a predicate was
Social theories are analytical frameworks, or paradigms, that are used to study and interpret social phenomena. [1] A tool used by social scientists, social theories relate to historical debates over the validity and reliability of different methodologies (e.g. positivism and antipositivism), the primacy of either structure or agency, as well as the relationship between contingency and necessity.
Lewis is sometimes called a proponent of conceptual pragmatism because of this. [31] Another development is the cooperation of logical positivism and pragmatism in the works of Charles W. Morris and Rudolf Carnap. The influence of pragmatism on these writers is mostly limited to the incorporation of the pragmatic maxim into their epistemology ...
Constructivism in education is rooted in epistemology, a theory of knowledge concerned with the logical categories of knowledge and its justification. [3] It acknowledges that learners bring prior knowledge and experiences shaped by their social and cultural environment and that learning is a process of students "constructing" knowledge based on their experiences.
A direct reference theory (also called referentialism [1] or referential realism) [2] is a theory of language that claims that the meaning of a word or expression lies in what it points out in the world. [3] The object denoted by a word is called its referent. Criticisms of this position are often associated with Ludwig Wittgenstein. [1]