The Knower
Intersecting circles
What is the graphical representation for personal and shared knowledge?
Math is certain.
What is a knowledge claim?
Product of more than one individual
What is shared knowledge?
The significance of the key points in the historical development of this area of knowledge.
What is historical development?
FIRMLIES
What are the WOKs: faith, intuition, reason, memory, language, imagination, emotion and sense perception?
Profile of you as a knower.
What is your Knowledgebook?
Open ended, broad, explored through multiple and diverse perspectives.
What is a knowledge question.
Tea tasters, wine tasters, perfumers
What is personal knowledge that cannot easily be shared?
Why this area is significant to the individual.
What are links to personal knowledge?
Deontologicalism, utilitarianism, relativism.
What are examples of ethical principles?
THE TOK question.
What is How do we know what we know?
Debatable, can be controversial, lends itself to a knowledge question, may have national, international or global scope, can be explored through multiple perspectives.
What is the criteria for a real life situation?
Results in an inability to examine knowledge through multiple perspectives.
What is a reliance on too much personal knowledge?
The methods or procedures used in this area and what is it about these methods that generates knowledge.
What is methodology?
An example of this AOK are stories about the Borneo head hunters customs and rituals.
What is Indigenous Knowledge Systems?
Seek to find out how knowledge is constructed using the various ways of knowing and areas of knowledge.
What are inquirers?
Step by step process for creating a knowledge question.
What is the knowledge question ladder?
High degree of connections
What is shared knowledge?
The metaphors are appropriate to this area of knowledge.
What is concepts/language?
Einstein said that his scientific knowledge all began with this.
What is his imagination?
Metaphor for knowledge.
What is a map?
A popular YouTube vlogger finds a body in a Japanese forest and reports live and posts it.
What is a real life situation?
Is believing something enough to make it real? What is truth? If we cannot determine what is real, what can we know?
What are major TOK questions?
The current open questions in this area – important questions that are currently unanswered.
What is scope/applications?
Is it possible that aesthetic value is at its base something universal - a fact about human beings?
What is a knowledge question in the arts?