Concepts
The standards of behavior and the regard for things of important moral worth.
What is values?
An open ended question that explores issues of knowing.
What is knowledge question?
Setting boundaries for what is considered knowledge within the AOK.
What is scope?
This Area of Knowledge seeks to understand the past using evidence and interpretation, but must confront incomplete sources, bias, and competing narratives.
What is History?
This ancient philosopher used a cave to explain how humans mistake shadows for reality.
Who is Plato?
A particular way of seeing or considering something.
What is perspectives?
It is Contestable, about knowledge, and includes concepts.
What is a knowledge question?
The ability to examine knowledge from a different point of view.
What is perspective?
Study of human existence and behavior.
What is the human sciences?
This psychologist showed that memory can be altered simply by changing the wording of a question.
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
The shared way of thinking, acting, and the material objects of a society and/or a community.
What is culture?
a statement in which we claim to know something, or a claim made about knowledge and knowing
What is a knowledge claim?
The ability to use different cognitive ways to observe knowledge within the given AOK.
What is method & tools?
This Area of Knowledge prioritizes interpretation and emotion over objectivity, raising questions about whether judgments of knowledge can ever be shared or evaluated consistently.
What is the ARTs?
This philosopher argued that we don’t know the world as it is, only as it appears through the mind’s structures.
Emmanuel Kant
The quality of having no doubt
What is certainty?
The philosophical study of how we know what we know, and the exploration of the difference between justified belief and opinion
What is epistemology?
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?
This Area of Knowledge relies on axioms, definitions, and deductive reasoning to produce certainty, but often struggles to explain how its truths connect to the real world.
What is MATH?
This empiricist questioned whether cause and effect can ever be logically proven.
Who is David Hume?
The signs that you can see, hear, experience or read to support the truth of an assertion
What is evidence?
Something taken for grant
A pattern, model or example that provides a framework of understanding.
What is a paradigm?
This Area of Knowledge aims for objectivity through experimentation and falsification, yet depends heavily on induction and models that are always open to revision.
What are the Natural sciences?
This thinker argued that what counts as “truth” depends on who holds power in society.
Michael Foucault