Philosophical analysis sheds light on competing educational tenets from a variety of theoretical traditions. Education in India took several forms, both before and after the country's independence fight. Pragmatists are those who believe that the best way to understand abstract philosophical notions like the nature of knowledge, language, concepts, meaning, belief, and science is to consider them in terms of their actual, everyday applications. One of the key theses of the logical positivism and its successor, logical empiricism (together referred to as neopositivism), was the verification principle (or verifiability requirement of meaning). He continued to meet with and Waismann, who relayed their conversations to the circle, even after the latter two were eliminated. The endeavor to position reason and science at the center of Indian culture across time goes beyond the issue of the identity of Indian philosophy or Indian science, and in the spirit of modernization theory, attempts to identify the reasons of their rise or collapse.
Key words: Pragmatism, Logical positivism, Materialism,
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