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STUDY GUIDE
Survival guide to TOK midterm
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Chapter 1: Problem of Knowledge
• Common Sense
• Confirmation bias
• Evidence
• Gullibility
• Mental Map
• Open-mindedness
• Paradox of cartography
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Common Sense(p.5)
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• Consists of little more than general and untested beliefs, which are based on narrow-mindedness, believing what you hear, and desiring authority.
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Mental Map (p.5)
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The way people view reality; consists of what we find true and false, unreasonable and reasonable.
*your everyday understandings !
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Paradox of cartography (p. 7)
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• “If a map is to be useful, then it must of necessity be imperfect.”
The imperfections in the map make it useful.
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Gullibility (p.12)
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• Willing to believe everything that you read, see, or hear.
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Evidence(p. 14)
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• In order to call something reasonable, there should be positive evidence to support it.
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Confirmation bias(p.14)
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• The tendency we have to notice the evidence that ONLY supports our beliefs.
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Open-mindedness(p.12)
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• We have to be open-minded enough to allow that there is a possibility of a strange thing being true.
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Chapter 2: The nature of knowledge
• Justified true belief
• Knowledge by authority
• News media
• Primary knowledge
• Second-hand knowledge
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Justified belief (p. 24)
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• Preliminary definition of knowledge is to say that it is a justified true belief.
• The three elements that make it up: truth, belief, justification (*primary knowledge)
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Second-hand knowledge(p.30)
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• Accepting knowledge from other people; accepting the beliefs and practice passed on from one generation to yours.
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Knowledge by authority (p.30)
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• Another name for second-hand knowledge and knowledge by testimony, which are made up of cultural tradition, school, the internet, expert opinion and the news media.
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News Media (p.34)
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• Shapes our picture of the world with bias in selection and presentation.
a. Bad news
B. Extraordinary news
C. It’s relevant news
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Chapter 3: Language
• Ambiguity • Connotation • Denotation Sapir-Whorf hypothesis• Euphemism Stereotypes • Idiom Weasel words • Irony • Linguistic determinism • Metaphor
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Ambiguity (p. 56)
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• The meaning of words and phrases that have different meanings (misleads people).
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Secondary meaning(p.57)
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• Denotation: the primal meaning (the dictionary’s definitions). *general
• Connotation: the associations that surround a word. *Varies b/w people
• Euphemisms: sugar coat harsh words
(He died = he passed away)
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Metaphor (p.57)
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• Metaphorical truth differs from literal truth.
• Dead metaphors are in our language; examples: We broke it off.
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Irony (p.58)
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• The saying of one thing in order to mean the opposite. (adds to the ambiguity to language)
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Idioms(p.62)
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• A conversational expression whose meaning cannot be worked out from the meanings of the words it contains… example: It’s raining cats and dogs.
• *Doesn’t make sense when translated.
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Stereotype(p.66)
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• Labels on people that hardened; statements which prove that assumptions were made of a group. (biased)
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Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis(p.68)
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• A hypothesis which states language determines our experience of reality, and we can see and think only what our language allows us to see and think.
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Linguistic determinism (p.68)
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• Form of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Example: A government who changes language to limit and restrict the way his people think.
language shapes thought?!
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Weasel Words (p. 73)
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• Examples: many, should, probably
• Words used by people to allow them to escape a task etc.
• “This will work if you simply follow the instructions.”
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Chapter 4:Perception
• Context• Empiricism • Expectations • Figure and ground • Optical illusions • Sensation • Selectivity • Visual grouping
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Empiricism(p.86)
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• The belief that all knowledge is ultimately based on perceptual experience. (experiences dealing with senses)
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Context(p.87)
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• The way we see something depends on the context in which we see it.
• We make contextual judgments unaware that we are doing it. “He looks bigger than Mike”… etc.
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Expectations(p.90)
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• Influence how we see things because we perceive things the way we expect them to appear; therefore, we miss things that are right in front of us.
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Figure and ground(p.89)
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• We have the tendency to highlight certain aspects of what we see (figure) and treat other parts of it as background (ground).
• Example :
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Visual grouping (p.89)
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• We naturally look for meanings in things we see in order to figure out a connection between one image and another.
• A few patches of black can look like a dog to us because we want to create meaningful pictures.
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Optical illusions (p.87)
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• Interpretation (what is provided by our minds) is put to a test when dealing with visuals illusions, for we create the illusions with the interpretation we put on them.
• A. Context
• B. Visual Grouping
• C. Figure and Ground
• D. Expectations
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Sensation(p.87)
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• Component of perception
• Is provided by the world; flood into our senses to experience something
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Selectivity of perception (p.91)
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• We need to be careful with our senses, for they are selective. Certain aspects engage our attention and stand out, and the rest fade away.
• What grabs attention- contrast, intensity, interest
• What shapes perception: mood, feelings, emotions.
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Chapter 5: Reason
• Ad hominem • Belief bias • Circular reasoning • Deduction • Fallacy • False analogy • False dilemma • Hasty generalization • Induction
• Lateral Thinking • Post hoc ergo propter
hoc fallacy • Premise • Rationalism • Venn diagram
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Premises, rationalism, fallacies(p.113)
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• Premise – No if’s of but’s about it, the root of an argument.
• Rationalism- discovering important truths about reality through the use of reason alone.
• Fallacies- invalid patterns of reasoning.
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Deduction (p.114)
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• Reasoning from general to particular
• Example: All metals expand when heated. A is a metal; therefore A expands when heated.
• Certain but not informative
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Induction(p.119)
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• Reasoning from particular to general
• Example: Metal A expands when heated; metal B expands when heated; metal C expands when heated. Therefore all metals expand when heated.
• More informative but not certain.
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Belief bias (p.116)
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• The tendency we have to believe that an argument is valid simply because we agree with the conclusion.
• We have to be cautious because agreeing with a conclusion doesn’t make the argument a good one.
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Venn diagrams(p.116)
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• Is helpful when deciding whether or not a syllogism (deductive argument) is valid.
• Overlapping circles do not always make the argument valid.
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Post hoc ergo propter hoc(p.124)
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• Deadly fallacy
• Confusing a connection with a causal connection
• Assuming that because one thing, follows another thing, A, then A must be the cause of B.
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Hasty generalization(p.129)
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• Generalizing from insufficient evidence
• Deadly fallacy
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Ad hominem (p.129)
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• Deadly fallacy
• Attacking/ supporting the person rather than the argument
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Circular reasoning (p.125)
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• Deadly fallacy
• Assuming the truth of what your are supposed to be proving
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False analogy (p.127)
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• Assuming that because two things are alike in some aspects they are exactly alike
• Deadly fallacy
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False dilemma(p.129)
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• Deadly fallacy
• Assuming that only two alternatives exist when there is in fact wider ranger of options
• Ex: binary (black v. white)
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Lateral thinking (p.135)
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• Thinking outside the box since we cannot rely on traditional logic.
• Edward de Bono says we need to come up with creative ways of thinking to come up with better solutions to problems.
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Chapter 6: Emotion
• Emotional coloring
• Emotive language
• James-Lange theory
• Primary emotions
• Wheel of rationalization
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Primary emotions (p.147)
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• Six basic inborn (not learned) emotions:
Happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise, disgust
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James-Lange Theory (p.148)
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• A psychologist who claims that emotions share a connection with our bodies. Emotions are physical in nature; body movements come before feeling sad etc.
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Wheel of Rationalization (p.153)
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• Powerful emotions biased perception fallacious reasoning emotive language
• “When we are in the grip of strong emotions, we tend not to reason…”
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Emotional coloring (p.151)
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• Our perception of things can be colored by strong emotions (“love is blind”).
• Make us aware of some aspects of reality and keeping out the other aspects.
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Emotive Language(p.151)
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• A person in deep emotion usually uses emotive and biased language.
• Talking in a way because you feel a certain way (language that derives from emotions).
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Chapters 3 to 6 were the ways of knowing.