night I realized that to me life meant to live and let others live‚ care for people who care for me and strive to learn till the end. I remember when I was back in India‚ I used to interfere in everybody’s business trying to make things the way turn my way. India is a multi-linguistic and multi-caste society where castes are divided into lower and upper strata. Thus‚ upper caste people‚ like me‚ treated the lower caste people like slaves. I used to lock them in the lockers and bathrooms‚ bully them
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With reference to two AOK‚ discuss the ways in which shared knowledge can shape personal knowledge Sarah Lee Word Count: 1534 Shared knowledge‚ in common sense‚ refers to a body of knowledge that is commonly accepted or rejected by a collective organization (IB TOK guide). Personal knowledge‚ on the other hand‚ refers to a body knowledge acquired from experiences of a particular individual (IB TOK guide). Since human beings are political animals‚ as Aristotle aptly points out
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Why did we choose this topic? We think that knowing the past is an important thing – to understand what is happening and to prevent the “same” mistakes from the past. However‚ there is a slight problem in our knowledge of past. And that’s why we asked this question: ….. Real-life situation You might be thinking…why did they choose this topic? Isn’t it obvious that what we know really happened? Are they trying to show us some stupid conspiracy theories or what? So here comes the real life situation
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Bringing TOK into everyday subject teaching Obtained from experienced TOK teachers working in specialist subject groups at the Madrid TOK conference November 2003. Compiled by Geoffrey Neuss Swedish A1 (Reporter: Håkon Kjellin‚ Täby Gymnasium‚ Sweden Hakan.Kjellin@tibble.taby.se) Interpretation: • Are there correct and incorrect interpretations? Or is relativism absolute when interpreting texts? Is there such a thing as over-interpretation? • What factors – individual psychological
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essays against the title as set. Respond to the title exactly as given; do not alter it in any way. Your essay must be between 1200 and 1600 words in length. 1. Knowledge is generated through the interaction of critical and creative thinking. Evaluate this statement in two areas of knowledge. 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. Using history and at least one other area
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Wednesday‚ April 11‚ 2012 Madee Vasa TOK essay #3 Do words have meaning or do we give them meaning? In Shakespeare’s Hamlet he wrote: “There is nothing either good or bad‚ but thinking makes it so.” What Shakespeare is saying in this quote is that everything in the world is only an inanimate presence until we bring it to life with our thoughts‚ which lead to perception‚ which then leads to actions. This can be applied also to language and the meaning of words. Do words really have a fixed
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can classify them in three different: Core intuitions: our most fundamental intuitions about life‚ the universe and everything. Abstractly it could be argued that all of our knowledge is based on intuition‚ although it’s said that different ways of knowing such as perception and reason give us knowledge‚ they depend on intuition. Reason: The laws of logic are the starting point of all our reasoning‚
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“That which is accepted as knowledge today is sometimes discarded tomorrow” Consider knowledge issues raised by this statement in two areas of knowledge There are two ways of accepting knowledge‚ one which can be collective acceptance as a general public and another is personal acceptance. In the question‚ it claims that knowledge‚ which is justified true belief according to Plato‚ regarded in a system of facts‚ can be accepted today and then discarded tomorrow. We can accept things as a fact
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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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statements to make a bigger general opinion whereas deduction involves various layers of possibilities and narrow down to a more reliable conclusion. Moreover‚ induction has several important features‚ but the most important one is that this intellectual way of reasoning never gives certain knowledge. For example‚ I am living in Singapore and it is 5pm in the afternoon‚ the sky is getting full of dark clouds‚ the wind it blowing harder‚ I can deduct that there’s a storm coming (deduction). However‚ it is
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