Concepts
Knowledge
TOK Framework
Areas of Knowledge
100

The standards of behavior and the regard for things of  important moral worth.

What is values?

100

An open ended question that explores issues of knowing.

What is knowledge question?

100

Setting boundaries for what is considered knowledge within the AOK. 

What is scope?

100

Deals with the past.

What is History?

200

A particular way of seeing  or considering something.

What is perspectives? 

200

It is Contestable, about knowledge, and includes concepts.

What is a knowledge question?

200

The ability to examine knowledge from a different point of view. 

What is perspective?

200

Study of human existence and behavior.

What is the human sciences?

300

The shared way of thinking, acting, and the material objects of a society and/or a community.

What is culture? 

300

a statement in which we claim to  know something, or a claim made about knowledge  and knowing  

What is a knowledge claim?

300

The ability to use different cognitive ways to observe knowledge within the given AOK. 

What is method & tools?

300

AOK looks includes a diverse range of disciplines such as visual arts, theatre, dance, music, film and literature.

What is the ARTs?

400

 The quality of having no doubt  

What is certainty? 

400

The  philosophical study of how we  know what we know, and the exploration of the  difference between justified belief and opinion 

What is epistemology?

400

the branch of knowledge to do with right and  wrong, and the study of the moral principles that  govern our beliefs and behaviors  

What is ethics?

400

Involves numbers.

What is MATH?

500

The signs that you can see, hear, experience or  read to support the truth of an assertion  

What is evidence? 

500

Something taken for grant

What is an assumption? 
500

A pattern, model or example that provides  a framework of understanding.

What is a paradigm?

500

This AOK often relies on evidence, rationality and the quest for deeper understanding

What are the Natural sciences?

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