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“Only knowledge that can be proven by logic or empirical methods is meaningful” In light of this statement how the arts be justified as possessing knowledge?
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Name: Jonathan Tam Class: 13A International Baccalaureate - Theory of Knowledge "Only knowledge that can be proven by logic or empirical methods is meaningful" In light of this statement how the arts be justified as possessing knowledge? There are four ways of knowing, namely language, logic, emotion and perception. Sometimes people think logic and emotion contradicts each other, e.g. some think that logic cannot prove emotions. "Logic and Knowledge" is giving us a focus on the relationship between logic and knowledge which are of great interest in our so-called "knowledge society". Recent developments in knowledge representation, knowledge acquisition, knowledge management, and knowledge processing have revitalized the desire of a better understanding of the inter-relationship of logic and knowledge. In our learning process, we deal with three kinds of "knowledge". Positive examples (facts to be entailed), negative examples (facts not to be entailed), and hypothesis (a set of predicted definitions). Logic is when the mind constructs "small-scale models" of...
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