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Compare and contrast knowing a friend to knowing how to swim, knowing a scientific theory and knowing a historical period.
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Theory of Knowledge Paper Jeremy Sutton TOK 9/4/06 Compare and contrast knowing a friend to knowing how to swim, knowing a scientific theory and knowing a historical period. What conclusions about the nature of knowledge can you reach? In every language, words are used as a means of communication. Many of these words have meanings that are ambiguous, sometimes having more than one meaning. Words referring to the human mind, such as love, memory, and especially knowledge, are the most associated with ambiguity. Knowledge is usually associated with different types of knowing. Though the difference is not present in the English language, romance languages, such as French and German, have more than one word that mean "to know." I myself take French, and I know that there are two different words that mean "to know:" "savoir," which refers to knowing a fact or piece of knowledge, and "connaître," which refers to knowing how to do...
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