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Helpful TOK Concepts (aka "TOK Vocabulary"):
Methods Verification Models Proof Interpretation
Certainty Justification Concept Culture Authority
Bias Theory Evidence Truth Generalization
Experience Explanation Validity Values Validity
Reliability Subjectivity Objectivity Belief Expert
Methods Verification Models Proof Interpretation
Certainty Justification Concept Culture Authority
Bias Theory Evidence Truth Generalization
Experience Explanation Validity Values Validity
Reliability Subjectivity Objectivity Belief Expert
Best Knowledge Questions from 2012 (from Jerry Chris)
- Can we have more knowledge with increased vocabulary?
- Can a statement not understood through words still be correct?
- Are we more likely to accept authority in science than in other Areas because we can not do the work ourselves?
- Can wrong information be useful to a discriminating reader?
- Can we attain new knowledge without use of innovative technology?
- Can truth discovered in a moment be as true as that discovered over time?
- Does axiomatic truth relate to the real world?
- Is the mechanism of vocabulary innately flawed because we have words such as indescribable and inexpressible?
- Should knowledge be available to everyone?
- Must intuition be discounted to achieve knowledge?
- Does one have knowledge if he/she does not understand what he/she knows?
- Is it possible for any account of history to be completely free of bias?
- Is faith in mathematics naive?
- Is intuition required for reason?
- If ones states that self-evident claims are unreliable, is intuition also unreliable?
- To what extent does instinct rely on what we already know?
- If the exact formula is given to the math student to solve a problem, is this critical thinking?
- Does placing importance on expanding data on an old discovery exclude new discovery?