Knowledge Claims By now, after many years of full-time
education and life- experience, you can, perhaps, claim to know
many things. You should be able to see what good reasons you might
have for what you say that you claim to know and choose to believe.
These may include: TaK Knowledge Claims logic perception intuition
Self-awareness memory consensus authority faith
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TaK Knowledge Claims Knowledge Claims Here is a list of things
that I might claim to know, and another list of reasons I might
give to support these claims. Match the reasons to the claims.
Claims 1. (I know that) the sky is blue 2. (I know that) 2 + 2 = 4
3. (I know that) it is wrong to murder a person 4. (I know that) I
have a fear of spiders 5. (I know that) I went out for a run
yesterday 6. (I know that) what the doctor said is true 7. (I know
that) women are more emotional than men 8. I know exactly what God
wants of me 9. (I know that) I am going to heaven 10. (I know that)
the fjord is more beautiful than a rubbish tip 11. (I know that) I
love my brother Justification Value judgement Faith Memory
Authority Intuition Revelation Sense perception Logic
Self-awareness Common knowledge Instinct
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Knowledge Claims 1. Your friend has told you that a vending
machine has just been installed in the Kantina. Do you believe her
or not? Why or why not? Do you ask questions to evaluate the claim?
2. Your friend has just told you that the math test was difficult.
Do you believe her or not? Why or why not? 3. Your friend,
obviously upset, has told you that a flying saucer has landed
behind near Sweden House and 15 little green men stepped out! Do
you believe her or not? Why or why not? 4. Your chemistry teacher
tells you that one mole of any substance contains 6.02 x 10
molecules. Do you believe her or not? Why or why not? 5. Your Math
teacher has just told you that Math is the most fascinating subject
in the world. Do you believe him or not? Why or why not? TaK
Knowledge Claims & Knowledge Issues
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Knowledge Issue What is a Knowledge Issue? Questions/Issues
that help us to obtain knowledge Issues which hinder our ability to
obtain knowledge Wherever there is a Knowledge Claim, there are
Knowledge Issues TaK Knowledge Claims
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Broad, panoramic questions which may help us to obtain
knowledge TaK Knowledge Claims What? Who? How? Why? When?
Where?
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A partial list of factors which may help or *hinder our ability
to obtain the truth.. Age Ethnicity Education Gender Nationality
Prejudice Experience Beliefs Emotions Assumptions TaK Knowledge
Claims *hinder: to prevent, cause delay, get in the way
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Good Judgement Always sceptical Easily convinced TaK Knowledge
Claims
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You heard on the news that there are now 8 planets in the solar
system, not nine as you were taught when younger, and as your
parents and grandparents learned in school. Members of the
International Astronomical Union voted to remove Pluto's planetary
status.
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In the voting for one of the offices in the newly-elected
Student Council it was noted that there was a dead-heat - 35 votes
each.
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When should we discard explanations that are intuitively
appealing? ToK Essay title May 2012
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TaK Knowledge Claims What is a Knowledge Claim? If prefaced
with I think that., it is a personal opinion; If prefaced with I
believe that, it is a personally held belief If prefaced with an
explicit I know that.; or an implied confidence in the truth of the
statement, then it is a Knowledge Claim. I know that., The truth is
that., The earth is flat, You cannot trust your senses, Math is
more important than the Arts, There is life after death etc.
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TaK Knowledge Claims
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Questions which help. What? Who? Where? When? Why? How? TaK
Knowledge Claims
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Factors which hinder? Age Prejudice Education Opinion Belief
Assumptions TaK Knowledge Claims & Knowledge Issues
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1. You always follow the Tour de France bicycle race,
marvelling at the cyclists who face this test of speed, strength,
nerve and endurance. The winner in 2010 tested positively for
doping.