Gain In Translation

... Gain In Translation Topic 7 Joy Fan IB Theory of Knowledge 11 Ms. B. Patton Block B January 28, 2009 In chemistry, charged particles are deflected from their straight-line paths when fired out of the mass spectrometer. Similarly, when presented with a certain idea or phenomenon, people often take on different approaches in tackling the subject. Such is the complexity of the perceptual and reasoning processes one utilizes that the things one see and understand are greatly affected by the people they are. Whether or not one benefits from the translation and gains subsequent knowledge could be a matter of two explanations. One attempt to explain the loss or gain in translation would be that different people, having acquired different degrees of experience and prior knowledge to the topic often have distinctly different perspectives on the question in matter. One other possible explanation would be that once different reasoning process are incorporated in the process

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