Title: TOK Essay 1/2012 Question: When should we trust our senses to give us truth? Name: Syaza Yasirah Bte Abu Bakar Class: P2 Index number: 14 Word Count: 1439 The Ways of Knowing of sense is related to empirical observation. From empiricism we might get facts‚ knowledge and truth. In this case‚ when our senses are reliable‚ it is defined as trust. Truth can be determined based on the three theories of truth. Although none of them is entirely satisfactory‚ each of the theories
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A Sense of History: Some Components by Gerald W. Schlabach All students who graduate from a liberal arts college should take with them an indelible awareness of the following: 1. Some things happened before other things. Studying history is much more than the memorization of dates. But if we get things out of chronological order‚ we’ll inevitably get a lot of other things wrong too. Imagine that we are in a new city trying to find "408 N. 5th St.‚" but vandals have taken down the signs
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Knowing your ideal work culture is beneficial in every area of the work place. Organization‚ values‚ vision and work language are all‚ different forms‚ of work culture. This essay will examine the work culture; appropriate channels for communications‚ ways to improve the quality of the work culture‚ and steps that can take to create a better work culture. The first question we examine will be how can knowing your ideal work culture help you in determining appropriate channels for communication
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Perception check -In a 2 page‚ I will inform the audience in 3 ways‚ why perception checking is a good tool to help people understand others. Perception checking is just like looking at different picures that are shown to us where sometimes there would be a face but in actuality there was two or more faces hidden contained in that drawing as we examined the documents. Perception is important to help people understand other accurately instead of jumping to conclusion thinking the wrong thoughts
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The Effects of Cola Type on Taste Perception Abstract The purpose of the present study is to examine the effects of cola type on taste perception. It was hypothesized that participants would correctly discriminate “different” cola pairs (e.g.‚ Coke-Pepsi‚ C-P) to a greater extent than “same” cola pairs (e.g.‚ Pepsi-Pepsi‚ P-P). The results support the hypothesis. Overall‚ a higher percentage of “different” cola pairs were correctly discriminated. In addition‚ it was hypothesized that participants
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How the perception of the blind or visually impaired differs from that of the sighted. Article 1: Auditory Substitution of Vision: Pattern Recognition by the Blind The goal of the experiment in this study was to investigate whether or not there was an effect on the performance of recognizing visual patterns using auditory substitution by the early blind. The reason for the study is because of the development of the graphical user interface (GUI) in information technology‚ relating to computer
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| Subliminal Perception | Term Paper | | Introduction: “If the grace of God miraculously operates‚ it probably operates through the subliminal door” William James‚ American philosopher and psychologist. As the quote suggested we cannot see god’s ability on our life still we believe in miraculous ability of god operation‚ so the quote says the miraculous ability of the god is through the subliminal door which is below the level of awareness. Another example that can be taken
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Perception comes in many forms‚ identities‚ and cultures. The real problems arise when people are forced to seek similarities through the difference. My first impression of the freshmen soccer players during my sophomore year was just awful. They were just some punk kids coming up from the middle school to us. “They never really knew how to play‚” we convinced ourselves. It seemed everyone was so much happier when we were the new kids on the field instead of those silly children. As soon as they
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The Sixth Sense “ Through close analysis of the house scene (with Dr. Crow and Lynn Sears) and the restaurant scene‚ discuss the techniques used by the director to make the audience believe that Dr. Crow is alive. “The sixth sense” is a psychological thriller directed by M. Night Shymalan about a young boy who can see dead people walking around him unaware that they are dead; he gets help from a psychologist called Dr. Crowe. Through close analysis of the restaurant scene and the scene
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In the essay Not Knowing and Not Wanting to Know by Haki R. Madhubuti he observes two types of educations. One that prepares kids to use their bodies “bodies from the neck down”. The other to prepare them “to build things and run things‚ using the neck up”. Neck down work meaning training and physical activity. The neck up meaning using a person’s knowledge. One type of education is “bodies from the neck down”. Bodies from the neck down can be many different things. For example working for a landscaping
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