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"If all knowledge is provisional, when can we have confidence in what…

- - - - understanding of or information about a subject that you get by experience or study, either known by one person or by people generally.
    - - Information acquired to understand a subject (in TOK's case AOK's).
  - - - for the present time but likely to change
    - - Piece of information that could be changed with another piece of information when a new info is found.
  - - - the quality of being certain of your abilities or of having trust in people, plans, or the future
    - - to be certain enough about an information to accept it as the true knowledge.
- - - - The Atomic Model of John Dalton was accepted as how atoms looked like for more then hundred years. In the upcoming 22 years, after J.J. Thompson published his atomic model in 1904, the form of the atomic model has changed 3 times.
        
        WOK
        
        Reason
        
        Historical Development
        
        Claim 1
        
        Most of the new theories are the improved versions of the old theories.
        
        Counterclaim
        
        Although the theories are said to be mostly influenced by the old theories, the scientists do a lot of research and put a lot of hours into their new studies/theories, some studying from entirely different sources
      - In Natural Sciences, the theories are proven by applying the findings to the real life.
        
        WOK
        
        Reason
        
        Scope/Application
        
        Claim 1
        
        Most of the theories need to be proven by applying them to real life.
        
        Counterclaim
        
        Some theories are impossible to apply in real life due to some technical difficulties eg. the lack of sufficent technology, therefore they are simulated or applied only depending on the theoratic side.
  - - - Pythagoreans believed dogmatically that only positive rational numbers could exist until Hippasus proved that not every number is rational.
        
        WOK
        
        Reason
        
        Historical Development
        
        Claim 1
        
        Most of the new theorems have been found based on old theorems.
        
        Counterclaim
        
        Although new theorems have been found based on old theorems, the mathematicians do a lot of work and they affect the development of knowledge.
      - In mathematics, new theorems are based on and proven by previous theorems.
        
        WOK
        
        Reason
        
        Scope/Application
        
        Claim 1
        
        A discipline or area of research is based off of a combination of many different already produced knowledge.
        
        Counterclaim
        
        Although a discipline or area of research in mathematics is based off of already produced knowledge, insufficient research in that discipline/area or some other reason may cause the knowledge to be provisional.