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  2. Vidya (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    Vidya (philosophy) Vidya (Sanskrit: विद्या, IAST: vidyā) figures prominently in all texts pertaining to Indian philosophy – meaning science, learning, knowledge, and scholarship. Most importantly, it refers to valid knowledge, which cannot be contradicted, and true knowledge, which is the intuitively -gained knowledge of the self.

  3. Nature versus nurture - Wikipedia

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    Nature versus nurture is a long-standing debate in biology and society about the relative influence on human beings of their genetic inheritance (nature) and the environmental conditions of their development (nurture). The alliterative expression "nature and nurture" in English has been in use since at least the Elizabethan period [1] and goes ...

  4. Proactivity - Wikipedia

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    The use of the word proactive (or pro-active) was limited to the domain of experimental psychology in the 1930s, and used with a different meaning. [3] Oxford English Dictionary (OED) [4] credits Paul Whiteley and Gerald Blankfort, citing their 1933 paper discussing proactive inhibition as the "impairment or retardation of learning or of the remembering of what is learned by effects that ...

  5. Language acquisition - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language. In other words, it is how human beings gain the ability to be aware of language, to understand it, and to produce and use words and sentences to communicate. Language acquisition involves structures, rules, and representation.

  6. National Digital Library of India - Wikipedia

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    The National Digital library of India is a virtual repository of learning resources which also provides services including textbooks, articles, videos, audiobooks, lectures, simulations, fiction, and all other kinds of learning media for the learners/user community. It is a project under Ministry of Education, Government of India, through its ...

  7. Nurture - Wikipedia

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    Nurture is usually defined as the process of caring for an organism as it grows, usually a human. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is often used in debates as the opposite of "nature", [ a ] whereby nurture means the process of replicating learned cultural information from one mind to another, and nature means the replication of genetic non-learned behavior.

  8. Hardev Bahri - Wikipedia

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    Hardev Bahri, also Bahari; 1907—2000) was an Indian linguist, literary critic, and lexicographer of the 20th century, notable for his work in Hindi, Punjabi, and other related Indo-Aryan languages. He compiled numerous monolingual and bilingual dictionaries for both general and technical purposes in collaboration with the publisher Rajpal and ...

  9. The Mirage of a Space Between Nature and Nurture - Wikipedia

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    Publication date. June 2010. Pages. 107. ISBN. 978-0-8223-4731-6. The Mirage of a Space Between Nature and Nurture is a book by Evelyn Fox Keller, an American historian of science, about the nature–nurture debate. It was first published in June 2010 by Duke University Press. [1] The book is unusually short, as it is a mere 107 pages long.