• The study or theory of the nature, sources, and limits of knowledge

• to give, grant, or bestow

pedagogy

• the profession or function of a teacher.
• the art or science of teaching, esp. instruction in teaching methods. 

• lacking a clear central hierarchy or organizing principle
• embodying extreme complexity, contradiction, ambiguity, diversity, interconnectedness, or interreferentiality. 
• Influenced by disillusionment of WWII

• a general theory of signs and symbols; esp. the analysis of the nature and relationships of signs in language, usually including three branches:  syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics. 

• proceding from a known or assumed cause to a necessarily related effect:  deductive. 

• wandering from one topic to another; skimming over many apparently unconnected subjects; rambling; desultory; digressive
• Based on the conscious use of reason rather than on intuition

• the study  of the nature of existence or reality