To what extent do ways of knowing prevent us from deluding ourselves? Justify your answer with reference to at least one area of knowledge
To what extent do ways of knowing prevent us from deluding ourselves? Justify your answer with reference to at least one area of knowledge
Ways of knowing are the core of TOK for us to get knowledge in different Areas of Knowledge. The two key terms on this essay question are “ways of Knowing” and “deluding ourselves”. “Ways of knowing are how we acquire knowledge about the world around us, and figure out our relationship with it”. (IB Diploma Program, 31) Ways of Knowing help us to understand Areas of Knowledge fully. TOK has 8 Ways of Knowing; on this essay I will discuss the three ways: - sense perception, emotions, and reasoning. “Deluding ourselves” means to mislead the mind or judgment. It means deceiving ourselves. In other words the question is to what extent do ways of knowing help us to know the truth or get reliable knowledge. Each Wok has importance in helping us to know the truth but, they should work together since all Ways of Knowing are dependent on each other. On this essay, I will show how each of the 3 Ways of Knowing prevents us from deluding ourselves and how, sometimes, they might mislead us to the wrong direction. We can get reliable knowledge by using all the necessary Ways of Knowing, not only one, and evaluate it before we accept it as a truth.
To a large extent ways of knowing prevent us from knowing ourselves. The knowledge we get have to pass through the ways of knowing for us to make a balanced decision. Sense perception is the main reason why I am able to work my day to day activities. I can see- which helps me to read, to understand what is going on. I can hear- which helps me to get knowledge from my teacher. I can smell and taste- which helps me to eat and drink a healthy food. All this helps me to live my everyday life. In order to see how much sense perception is important, we can see disable people with sense perception. A blind man cannot see so he/she may accidentally fall, or cannot know what is going on in the
Ways of knowing are the core of TOK for us to get knowledge in different Areas of Knowledge. The two key terms on this essay question are “ways of Knowing” and “deluding ourselves”. “Ways of knowing are how we acquire knowledge about the world around us, and figure out our relationship with it”. (IB Diploma Program, 31) Ways of Knowing help us to understand Areas of Knowledge fully. TOK has 8 Ways of Knowing; on this essay I will discuss the three ways: - sense perception, emotions, and reasoning. “Deluding ourselves” means to mislead the mind or judgment. It means deceiving ourselves. In other words the question is to what extent do ways of knowing help us to know the truth or get reliable knowledge. Each Wok has importance in helping us to know the truth but, they should work together since all Ways of Knowing are dependent on each other. On this essay, I will show how each of the 3 Ways of Knowing prevents us from deluding ourselves and how, sometimes, they might mislead us to the wrong direction. We can get reliable knowledge by using all the necessary Ways of Knowing, not only one, and evaluate it before we accept it as a truth.
To a large extent ways of knowing prevent us from knowing ourselves. The knowledge we get have to pass through the ways of knowing for us to make a balanced decision. Sense perception is the main reason why I am able to work my day to day activities. I can see- which helps me to read, to understand what is going on. I can hear- which helps me to get knowledge from my teacher. I can smell and taste- which helps me to eat and drink a healthy food. All this helps me to live my everyday life. In order to see how much sense perception is important, we can see disable people with sense perception. A blind man cannot see so he/she may accidentally fall, or cannot know what is going on in the
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