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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