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"Our knowledge and beliefs are like a road map which helps us avoid wrong turns, but which needs to be corrected whenever it is contradicted by our experience of the World" - Discuss.
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"OUR KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEFS ARE LIKE A ROAD MAP WHICH HELPS US AVOID WRONG TURNS, BUT WHICH NEEDS TO BE CORRECTED WHENEVER IT IS CONTRADICTED BY OUR EXPERIENCE OF THE WORLD" Discuss this simile from the point of view of three of the fields you have examined during your TOK course, and of your experience of the TOK course itself. Since the dawn of mankind, Man has striven first to understand, and later to control, the World that surrounds him. Patterns have been noticed, connections inferred, questions asked and answers proposed. "Why are the stars always in the same place when the Nile floods?" That's the way our brains work, we are nothing less -and nothing more- than symbolic computers. We see things, we draw conclusions, we build up simplified versions of reality, models, that we can understand. And, more often that we'd like to admit, we get it wrong. Having some...
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