agenda’s‚ truth is sometimes ignored or becomes irrelevant. The question is if truth has become so twisted that it doesn’t really exist in its original meaning anymore? If truth has been lost there must be a substitute‚ this is where post-truth originated. Post-truth is when decisions are based upon emotions rather than facts‚ this is dangerous because each person feels a different way and therefore can justify melding a subject to fit their own liking. Post-truth has caused all truths to be called
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Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963)‚ Karl Popper suggests that no scientific theory can be classified as truth. The only thing that can be done is to attempt to falsify the theory over and over again reject the theory repeatedly in different situations. Each failed attempt will strengthen the theory and bring it closer to the truth. Hence‚ Popper claimed that the truth of a hypothesis can never be confirmed. A hypothesis is an “if-then” statement‚ which that is an assumption of causality
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Early this month we finished our final TOK presentation. I did mine with Faizaan‚ and we chose to take up the subject of philanthropy. The real reason that people give in the first place is a very controversial and relevant topic‚ and so we thought it would make a good topic for a presentation. It was very important for us to be interested in the topic we were going to be presenting‚ as we would be spending so many hours doing work on it- we are both interested in business and aspire to become businessmen
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“Density of cells” means “the number of cells per unit volume of liquid”. For example‚ they might want to find out the density of red blood cells in blood plasma‚ the density of bacteria in milk‚ or the population of Paramecium sp. (a protozoan) in water from a pond. The simplest‚ most convenient and cheapest means of accurately determining the number of cells in a sample is to use a haemocytometer and a microscope. A haemocytometer is a specialised slide that has a counting chamber with a known volume
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Do you have an awareness of your own perspective as a knower in relation to other perspectives? Several different factors affect an individual’s perception and understanding of their surroundings. It’s extremely difficult to separate one’s own perspective without relating it to other perspectives like that of religion and culture. Through my life experiences I have developed the ability to separate the two. I’m aware of my own perspective as a knower in relation to other perspectives and with my
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Emotions Emotion: A state of arousal involving facial and body changes‚ brain activation‚ cognitive appraisals‚ subjective feelings‚ and tendencies toward action‚ all shaped by cultural rules. Arousal- excited state; elevated state of emotion. (Can be positive or negative) Brain activation- electrical sparks; neurons Appraise- an act of assessing someone or something. Subjective feeling- feeling perceive by the person with the feelings Tendency to act- The action of being sad is crying
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Belief has been defined by dictionary as “An acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists.” or it is a “psychological state in which an individual holds a conjecture or premise to be true”. However‚ this is just the basic definition of belief‚ and if we think beyond the meanings of this word‚ we would probably realized that these do NOT make sense. There is a scale for belief‚ from -10 to 10‚ from impossible to certain. People believed that after they die‚ they will go to hell
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him a math problem involving a clothing dealer trying to sell an old overcoat by reducing the price. Instead of focusing on the word problem Nathan observes the oddity of the situation and the details. This supports the idea of looking at mathematics from an abstract point of view without regarding details. The Mathematical Paradigm: * ‘ the science of rigorous proof’ * Euclid (300 B.C.) was the “first person to organize geometry into a rigorous body of knowledge” and his theories have had
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knowledge and the idea of ethical responsibility + evaluate the statement in contexts of ways of knowing and areas of knowing - Ethical responsibility = refers to the idea that you should do something to correct a harmful situation or prevent harm from happening Knowledge issues: - Why should knowing lead to ethical responsibility? Is ethical responsibility rather created by what the knower does with knowledge? - Is it our interpretation of knowledge that create ethical responsibility rather
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“The possession of knowledge carries an ethical responsibility”- Tanmay Dhanopia 11th C As we all know that possession of knowledge carries an ethical responsibility‚ sometimes both ethical responsibility and knowledge confuses us in making certain decisions. One fine morning I was sitting in my house’s balcony enjoying the lovely weather‚ I started reading a newspaper whose headline which was “the improvement in cosmetics by animal testing” attracted me as the whole article was providing details
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