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... TOK Essay Some experts (athletes, dancers, musicians, visual artists, cabinet makers, lab technicians, mechanics, surgeon, etc.) may have acquired knowledge that is difficult to describe in words. Does this mean that other Ways of Knowing play a more important role than language in knowing how to do something? Language is defined as "a systematic means of communicating ideas or feelings by the use of conventionalized signs, sounds, gestures, or marks having understood meanings". Nowadays language plays a crucial part in the existence of human life and is used as a major way of knowing, by the side of others like perception and emotion. These are connected to further areas of knowledge like mathematics and ethics along others. Mathematics is approximately applicable for everything. No matter what, even though experts have acquired a special knowledge the have to be aware of maths so they can complete their function. Mathematics involves dimension and
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