There Are Only Two Ways In Which Humankind Can Produce Knowledge?
NAME: ALICE SENAMNIMOH-APPEA
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FINAL TOK ESSAY DRAFT
QUESTION: “There are only two ways in which humankind can produce knowledge: through passive observation or through active experiment.” To what extent do you agree with this statement?
Knowledge as a whole is the total information one has acquired. Passive observation is the process of observation that one is not experiencing the event. It is not as dynamic as active experimentation because one just perceives the event and not feeling it, the observer does not have any idea of the outcome of the situation. In the way, knowledge is produced. On the other hand active experimentation is the act of actually conducting a planned experiment which the experimenter has prior knowledge of the outcome. I will use mathematics as an area of knowledge as well as the human sciences using inductive and deductive proofs to …show more content…
Our emotions have been a subject for research on the brain and learning and in the process producing knowledge. How one feels about everything gives one an idea to how things work which is knowledge. Take a funeral for instance, the emotion that is gain at this moment is sadness from there one can conclude that the during funeral occasions people turn to be sad. That is the knowledge the person gain from the first experience with the emotion that is sadness in any of case of funerals this knowledge will be used. This way of knowing is related to the other ways of knowing I talked about earlier in my essay and how there relate hand in hand to produce knowledge. One’s ability to give names to emotions and speak of them with others shows an emotional life shared with others and understood in terms of these groupings given by one own specific language. Language and perception together contribute to our understanding. One learns that the word as it used to describes behavior and describes the invisible emotion, which is
CANDIDATE NUMBER:
FINAL TOK ESSAY DRAFT
QUESTION: “There are only two ways in which humankind can produce knowledge: through passive observation or through active experiment.” To what extent do you agree with this statement?
Knowledge as a whole is the total information one has acquired. Passive observation is the process of observation that one is not experiencing the event. It is not as dynamic as active experimentation because one just perceives the event and not feeling it, the observer does not have any idea of the outcome of the situation. In the way, knowledge is produced. On the other hand active experimentation is the act of actually conducting a planned experiment which the experimenter has prior knowledge of the outcome. I will use mathematics as an area of knowledge as well as the human sciences using inductive and deductive proofs to …show more content…
Our emotions have been a subject for research on the brain and learning and in the process producing knowledge. How one feels about everything gives one an idea to how things work which is knowledge. Take a funeral for instance, the emotion that is gain at this moment is sadness from there one can conclude that the during funeral occasions people turn to be sad. That is the knowledge the person gain from the first experience with the emotion that is sadness in any of case of funerals this knowledge will be used. This way of knowing is related to the other ways of knowing I talked about earlier in my essay and how there relate hand in hand to produce knowledge. One’s ability to give names to emotions and speak of them with others shows an emotional life shared with others and understood in terms of these groupings given by one own specific language. Language and perception together contribute to our understanding. One learns that the word as it used to describes behavior and describes the invisible emotion, which is