tok journal #2

2/22/2013

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Ways of Knowing / Perception.

Answer the following question. Remember to use your own experience as a means for illustrating your points of view.  DEADLINE: Sunday, Feb. 24

Given the partially subjective nature of sense-perception, how can different knowers ever agree on what is perceived? Do people with different cultural or linguistic backgrounds live, in some sense, in different worlds?
 
Enjoy. If you're really curious about how different our worlds have been thought to be by some theorists, depending on our language, culture (worldviews and experiences, even perception, are always mediated by language), check out the so-called Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis.
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JOURNAL assignment #1

2/12/2013

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“For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.” ― Plato, Theaetetus
Hi everyone! Please send your comments/entries on the quote above. You have until Sat., Feb 16. Late contributions will not be receive a grade. Please remember to post the same text on MANAGEbac (go to your ToK profile and click on JOURNAL, which should be on the right-hand side of the screen) and to SIGN the entry. Enjoy!
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ToK WEB JOURNAL

2/12/2013

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Theory of Knowledge is an extremely practical subject.  It can be applied in all your IB subjects, and in almost any aspect of your daily life.  Your essays and your presentations will be awarded marks for how you relate what we do in class to your own experiences.  It is therefore important that you get used to applying the ideas of Theory of Knowledge to your own original examples. 

You are required to keep up with your TOK journal entries through the designated TOK blog. Here, you will make weekly entries about the ideas of Theory of Knowledge and how they apply to your everyday life.  You are also required to upload your entries to your personal ManageBac TOK page.  Your journal entries will be a response to the chosen theme of the blog.  You will find that the journals are hard to write at first, but after a while you will begin to see opportunities for entries all around.  Importantly, essays/presentations are made much easier by a series of good journals. 

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