Key Concept Basics
This concept is about how knowledge shifts depending on time and place.
What is Change?
This concept asks about the purpose or use of knowledge.
What is Purpose?
This way of knowing uses logic and deduction to evaluate knowledge claims.
What is Reason?
This way of knowing involves trust in tradition, authority, or belief systems.
What is Faith?
The emotion-based way of knowing that influences how we interpret knowledge.
What is Emotion?
This concept asks us to consider whether knowledge claims are objective or subjective.
What is Truth?
This concept connects knowledge to morality, ethics, and decision-making.
What are Values?
This way of knowing allows humans to communicate and share knowledge across cultures.
What is Language?
This concept questions whether knowledge stays the same over time.
What is change?
The key concept that asks how new knowledge links to what we already know.
What are Connections?
This concept reminds us that knowledge is influenced by our cultural, historical, and personal viewpoints.
What is Perspective?
This concept asks how the tools and procedures we use affect knowledge creation.
What are Methods & Tools?
This way of knowing is based on data we collect through our five senses.
What is Sense Perception?
This way of knowing relies on our ability to recall past experiences and information.
What is Memory?
The key concept that questions how we organize knowledge within disciplines.
What is Classification?
This concept is about how knowledge is organized into groups or categories.
What is Classification?
This concept looks at how different pieces of knowledge relate to each other.
What are Connections?
This way of knowing helps us make quick judgments without deliberate reasoning.
What is Intuition?
This concept asks about the symbols and meanings we give to knowledge claims.
What is Interpretation?
The way of knowing central to the scientific method because it depends on observation.
What is Sense Perception?
This concept considers how knowledge is framed by its limits, including disciplines and methods.
What are Boundaries?
This concept highlights uncertainty and the limits of what we can know.
What is Uncertainty?
This way of knowing allows us to create, imagine, and think beyond the present reality.
What is Imagination?
This concept looks at how individual parts interact with each other to create a larger structure of knowledge.
What are Systems?
The concept that asks what we mean when we say something is "true."
What is Truth?