Tok Chap 1-3

... TOK Notes Chapter 1: The Problem of Knowledge Introduction * Critical thinking involves asking good questions, using language with care and precision, supporting your ideas with evidence, arguing coherently, and making sound judgements. * Four ways of acquiring knowledge: perception, language, reason, emotion * Despite the growth of knowledge, we are confronted by contradictory beliefs. * The difference in education of the prevailing era supports the fact that knowledge is not static but changes over time. * Nothing is certain, due to some claims by scientists we have not been trying to make sense of the world for long enough in the cosmic year to guarantee the results. Common Sense * Most people trusts knowledge to the point for knowledge to become common sense, yet common sense is based on nothing more than vague and untested beliefs. * Common sense provides us with a starting point. * Our mental map of reality provides us with common sense, what our ideas of

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