In Gadamer, the broader hermeneutical shifts from regional to general hermeneutics, and from epistemological to existential hermeneutics, are clearly evident. His most significant contributions to hermeneutics come from his unique emphasis on how understanding is mediated through language and tradition. Gadamer is perhaps best known for his distinctively dialogical (the logic of dialogue) approach to human understanding and his further expansion of the reach of hermeneutics. Like Heidegger, Gadamer