You as an Indvidual
This is an awareness of something in and through the mind.
This means to believe in absolute truth and absolute cultural, religious, political and moral standards against which all other views can be judged.
What is Absolutism?
This type of information is open to interpretation and personal judgements.
What is subjectivity?
This is the belief that we can make sound judgements in every-day situations and understand every-day concepts without any specialized knowledge.
What is common sense?
This describes the behaviours and attitudes that arise out of loyalty to a social group.
What is tribalism?
This is a point of view, a particular way of seeing or considering something.
What is perspective?
This means to recognize that knowledge claims are dependent on contextual factors or frames of reference.
What is relativity?
This type of information is based on factual and measurable information.
What is objectivity?
These are three features of common sense.
What is plain self-evident truths, it can be easily grasped, and basic awareness and ability to judge?
This describes a group of people with a common interest around a specific field of knowledge or activity?
What is knowledge community?
In his book Meno, Plato argues that everyone is capable of learning math. In Lockes's essay, An Essay Concering Human Understanding, Locke argues we are tabula rasa (blank slates). Linguist, Noam Chomsky argues that all languages have similar roots. All three of these philosophers are debating about this type of knowledge.
What is innate knowledge?
This means the belief that what might be true or right for one person or group need not be true or right for another person or group; that all truths are of equal value.
What is relativism?
This 17th century french philosopher, mathematician, and scientist set out to proved scholasticism wrong and created the process called skepticism.
Who is René Descartes?
Common sense is actually this which means a flaw in logic.
This describes knowledge that can be communicated between different people?
What is shared knowledge?
When you are asked to write about something you know little about and are unable to even though you can talk about it for a long time, you tend to follow this principle of knowledge.
What is the illusion of explanatory depth?
This is the idea that language and its structures determine human knowledge, thought, and thought processes.
What is linguistic determinism?
Author of Personal Knowledge, this person believed that all knowledge claims rely on personal judgements and that knowers cannot stand apart from the world around them. He was also a polymath.
Who is Michael Polanyi?
The idea of drawing sound conclusions and forming opinions.
What are judgements?
This happens when you go against a tribe or try to leave the tribe.
What is exile?
This 18th century philosopher believed that he could only find himself when there was some perception of himself.
Who is David Hume?
The belief that all cultures are of equal value.
This 18th century philosopher wrote The Critique of Pure Reason in which he argues that the mind plays an active role in forming the features of experience. Thus stating we need to find a way to eliminate our personal basis to be objective.
Who is Immanuel Kant?
What is reflect on your experience, investigate further, understand your own personal biases, and evaluate the evidence?
Is tribalism unavoidable or avoidable?
What is unavoidable?