seems like a reasonable excuse‚ if she is uncomfortable with her body‚ it would be her choice to expose it or not‚ however deeper psychological factors are involved and countless other reasons which I would not be able to think of nor comprehend. The knowledge of another person would be mainly created out of language‚ perception and emotion. A knower’s perception of a friend’s action would be affected by emotions; hence the knowledge of a friend will be affected too. A perception of a friend may
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Wilde Theory of Knowledge 3 May 2012 TOK Essay Response: Critical and Creative Thinking Since the dawn of humanity‚ man has sought to gain further insight on life through attaining knowledge. Knowledge can be defined as any information gained through personal experience. The means of obtaining knowledge include four main branches: reason‚ perception‚ language‚ and emotion. Despite the means‚ all knowledge is formulated through the process of thinking. Thinking refers to the use of the mind
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assumption that a smartly dressed person is more educated and sophisticated. This criterion is not entirely accurate though‚ because many companies employ this strategy to endorse their product. We sometimes accept knowledge without the need of reason but for purpose. Such as a monk that accepts that his God is real for the sake of faith and piety. Another type of acceptance is acceptance to avoid error. Such as I know that all objects is made from atoms. I accept this with respect to obtaining
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without the other three areas of knowledge emotions would have no way of expression because to be able to recognize what you feel you have to have logic and reason. To be able to feel your emotions you have to have your sense perception. To be able to say what you feel to yourself and other people around you have to know the correct language and be able to communicate those feelings and emotions. However some people may argue that you can know things purely through emotion if you believe that
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Instructions 1. How to Write a Good TOK Essay‚ The First Draft o 1 Review the Ways of Knowing. A TOK essay revolves around the question of what people know‚ how they know‚ how they test what they know‚ and the parts that experience‚ study‚ analysis and sensation play in human knowledge systems. Before doing anything else‚ review your understanding of this material for it will form the basis on which your entire essay will be judged. o 2 Review the grading criteria. Many students think of the
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Tok Essay Prescribed title 2 “Compare and contrast knowledge which can be expressed in words/symbols with knowledge that cannot be expressed in this way. Consider CAS and one or more areas of knowledge.” It is funny how the universal signs of intelligence are words and symbols or things that contain them. When someone walks past me with a load of books in their hand I immediately think “oh what a smart and knowledgeable person‚” and I’m sure I’m not the only one that makes these snap judgments
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as intuition. It is simply the brain’s “shortcut” to making a hasty decision or opinion in a matter of seconds with the least amount of thinking involved as possible. In addition to the four main Ways of Knowing (WOKs)‚ perception‚ emotion‚ reason‚ and language‚ intuition has the potential to be considered a separate‚ fifth WOK as it may lead to certain truths. However‚ intuition is simply a hybrid of two of the WOKs‚ perception and emotion; therefore‚ intuition cannot be considered its own‚ brand
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reality of and interaction with the world. What‚ then‚ becomes the role of reason in these explanations? In practice then it would seem that‚ at best‚ reason is a means of preserving truth in the sense that when we begin with truth‚ then we will end with a truth. Fallacies arise with sources of reasoning‚ suggesting that we cannot always rely on reason to give us knowledge either. How does the conflict between intuition and reason present itself in science and ethics? Can this conflict be settled and
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Throughout the history of our world "man" has always tried to describe or define knowledge in regards to its knower. During the age of Greek dominance‚ a philosopher who went by the name of Plato decided that the knowledge that surrounds everything and ever person is a mysterious kind of union between a knower and his knowledge. At times he compares knowledge to a type of love that human beings should embrace in every mystical way. John Dewey‚ describes his idea of mans’ relationship with knowledge:
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American Sign Language‚ commonly abbreviated ASL‚ is the native and natural language of individuals living in the United States who are Deaf. ASL finds its parentage in primarily two distinct sources; signs that were used communicatively within smaller communities of people in the 16th through 19th Centuries in the Colonies and States of the U.S.‚ and the strong influence of Old French Sign Language which was introduced in the mid 19th Century. As with any creole‚ over a matter of just a couple of
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