Main Concepts and Subconcepts between 6-16 pages in the TOK book

Personal Knowledge

Shared Knowledge all knowledge that can be communicated between people

The Knower as a Member of Communities

Personal Ignorance

Knowing Yourself our individual "I" depends upon our collective "we"

experiential (based on experience)

priori (purely by reason)

innate

example: How to breathe, how to cry, knowing to search for our mother's nipple

Theorem (geometry, mathematics...)

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Opposing view against innate knowledge: Empiricism (John Locke)

universal grammar

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First-hand

Second-hand

our own personal experiences

the knowledge that we learn from other people or sources

example: academic knowledge that we might learn in school, books, journals etc.

some of second hand knowledge may be informalknowledge

Ignorance (lack of knowledge)

Expert (a person with specialised knowledge in a particular subject)

Certainty (the quality of having no doubt)

Illusion of explanatory depth (the illusion that you understand something in detail when you do not

Explanation an acoount or statement that makes something clear

Self knowledge

Tribalism the behaviours and attitudes that arise out of loyalty to a social group

Blind allegiances

Tribes the groups that we identify strongly with

examples: close friends, family group, large global group such as fans of Cristiano Ronaldo etc.

Outrage intense anger and schock

Retribution punishment inflicted in response to an action

Proof conclusive evidence

Knowledge communities a group of people with a common interest, generally in a specific field of knowledge or activity.

aims: sharing competencies, information and knowledge, often to achieve personal and/or collective goals.

examples: a mathematics society, medical association, a TOK class etc.

Objectivity looking at the world in a detached way that focus on facts, largely independent of a personal perspective...

Contributors knowledge communities, especially academic knowledge communities, individual knowers

Sharing of language

Collective knowledge of many people

Vast array of people

Subjectivity looking at the world from a personal point of view

the experiences we have had, the people we have met, the books we have read, the films we have watched, etc. have contributed to us. (our personality; ideas, ideologies we had had, etc.)

Interpretation an explanation of the meaning of something

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