TOK - Topic 3 (2007)

... "If someone claims that both the divisions of knowledge into disciplines and the divisions of the world into countries on a map are artificial, what does this mean? What is the nature of the boundaries between the Areas of Knowledge, in your view?" It often seems as though the need for classification and categorization is apparent in our natural human instincts - we simplify and organize the complicated and the disorganized. Although its seems effortless in theory, dividing 500,000,000 square kilometers of surface area into countries, and a concept of great scope such as knowledge into disciplines, is by no means a simple task. If one claims that these divisions are indeed "artificial", are we to understand that the divisions are simply not natural, or moreover, that they have been completely created by humans alone? Perhaps the more appropriate question to first consider would be how permanent the boundaries are? Are

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