TOK Terms I
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TOK Miscellaneous
100
A letter, number, symbol, punctuation mark, etc.
What is grapheme?
100
The study of the meaning of words.
What is semantics?
100
The perfect example of something.
What is quintessence?
100
The zoo in which an innocent primate was gunned down when a child fell into its enclosure.
What is Cincinnati?
100
Coherence, Correspondence, and Pragmatic.
What are the Three Truth Checks?
200
The ability to imagine another person's situation from their point of view.
What is empathy?
200
The study of the structure of words.
What is morphology?
200
A new word added to a language?
What is a neologism?
200
This legendary boxer fought for civil rights in the sixties and recently passed away.
Who is Muhammed Ali?
200
A type of reasoning that starts with the specific and ends with the general.
What is Inductive Reasoning?
300
The truth check that is based on internal consistency.
What is coherence truth check?
300
The tendency to infuse patterns with meaning, intention and agency.
What is Agenticity?
300
Doing the bare minimum.
What is perfunctory?
300
The actors in this popular Broadway musical recently offended vice president elect Mike Pence.
What is "Hamilton"?
300
The study of the sounds of language.
What is Phonology?
400
The tendency to look at everything from our own point of view.
What is egocentric bias?
400
The idea the structure of our language determines our experience of the world.
What is Linguistic Determinism?
400
Trying to turn something into a way to make profit.
What is monetization?
400
This 2007 dance was made popular by hip hop mogul Soulja Boy.
What is Crank dat?
400
The layering of different musical rhythms on top of each other.
What is polyrhythm?
500
Taking pleasure in another person's misfortune.
What is schadenfreude?
500
A tool for analyzing the step-by-step process of reasoning that makes it explicit.
What is syllogism?
500
Branch of philosophy dealing with the limits of knowledge.
What is Epistemology?
500
This director of Wolf of Wall Street, Goodfellas, and Taxi Driver is known for obscene language and the harsh depiction of American culture.
Who is Martin Scorsese?
500
Open-ended, general, and about knowledge.
What is a Knowledge Question?
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