New TOK Essay Topic 3: There are no absolute distinctions between what is true and what is false. Discuss this claim. I’d always believed that the truth was a rather simple idea. To me‚ it was something that was true or correct or existing in this world. But after all the discussions in TOK‚ with family and with friends‚ and after deep rumination on the subject‚ I’ve realized that’s it’s a much more broad‚ complex and often mind-boggling concept. However‚ now I see that there are essentially
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A. 1. Differences between First Language and Second Language | First Language | Second Language | Definition | any language other than English that a child was exposed to during early development and continues to be exposed to in the home or community | any language learned after the first language or mother tongue | Basis for learning | universal grammar alone | knowledge of the first language also serves as a basis for learning the second language | Learning Process | children spend
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OVERVIEW: 1. Child language development: stages 2. FLA Theories: Skinner‚ Piaget vs. Chomsky. 3. Roger Brown & Morpheme Order 4. Child-Directed Speech (motherese); CHILDES 5. Gordon Wells & The Bristol Project ============================================================== Summary of Theories of First Language Acquisition Three broad theories of L1 acquisition:
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Theory of Knowledge Éanna OBoyle ToK Mathematics “... what the ordinary person in the street regards as mathematics is usually nothing more than the operations of counting with perhaps a little geometry thrown in for good measure. This is why banking or accountancy or architecture is regarded as a suitable profession for someone who is ‘good at figures’. Indeed‚ this popular view of what mathematics is‚ and what is required to be good at it‚ is extremely prevalent; yet it would be laughed at
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Niki Ahmadi TOK Essay January 20‚ 2013 The Possession of Knowledge Carries an Ethical Responsibility “The possession of knowledge carries an ethical responsibility.” The challenge in understanding this claim lies in its broadness. Stated as such without qualification‚ the statement has no real context and cannot be confirmed or disaffirmed with any solid justification. This is the nature of language: words in and of themselves do not come with a history behind their meaning‚ the various ways
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TOK Essay on History (Pompeii Activity) Dear students Please choose one of the past TOK prescribed titles in order to analyse the Pompeii Activity dealing with: AOK: History‚ Natural Sciences WOK: Reason‚ Sense Perception‚ Language‚ Emotion Concepts: Certainty‚ Evidence‚ Explanation‚ Interpretation‚ Technology Knowledge Questions: Bias‚ selection‚ absolute claims‚ conflicting interpretations 1. Using history and at least one other area of knowledge‚ examine the claim that it is possible to
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Language and Thought: Independent‚ Complementary or Inseperable? By V. P. Barvinko In what way do language and thought correlate? Are they unconnected‚ loosely influenced by each other‚ or are they rigidly interdependent? Could learning a new language radically impact your perception and understanding of the world? Traditionally‚ and by many still‚ a clear distinction is made between language and thought: Thought is the abstract processing of information within our minds‚ and language is the medium
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TOK Writing Assignment “When the only tool you have is a hammer‚ all problems begin to resemble nails.” (Abraham Maslow) How might this apply to ways of knowing‚ as tools‚ in the pursuit of knowledge? Ways of knowing embody memory‚ language‚ emotion‚ intuition‚ sense perception‚ reason‚ imagination‚ and faith‚ which take part in the process of acquiring knowledge. For instance‚ language can be considered as a means of exchanging the knowledge with each other and emotion is a way to express our
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TOK You can not call a house made of nothing but a pile of bricks‚ a house‚ as it needs cement around its stones to have them stick together to be build from its base‚ all the way tot he roof. Other factors would be glass for windows and tiles for the roof‚ which is why neither a pile of bricks‚ nor just a design is what makes up the house. Henri Poincare uses the metaphor of a house to describe science. But what we need to consider is the definition of a fact and also by what process these
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the production of knowledge?” In the following paragraphs‚ I will connect these knowledge questions with different ways of knowing and areas of knowledge. First of all‚ admittedly‚ sense perception is one way of knowing that adopts both active and passive learning. Basically‚ there are two main models of human sensory perception‚ in which one of them is “top down” constructivism and another one is “bottom-up” direct ecological model. On one hand‚ the former one‚ to some extent‚ refers to active
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