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Learn what the ways of knowing are and how they help us form knowledge in TOK. Explore the 8 WOKs, their definitions, functions, limitations and examples.
- Reason
- Imagination
- Intuition
- Memory
- Faith
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Reason allows us to generate knowledge without relying on our senses. It entails taking what we currently know and synthesizing it into new knowledge and we can deduce what we are unable to perceive directly through reason. For example, if you are inside and notice that there are no clouds outside, you may conclude that it is not raining. Here, you...
Imagination in ways of knowing is a means to generate new thoughts, concepts, or pictures found in our everyday lives. Imagination is therefore vital in the development of new information. Let's have a look at businesses. They design items by conceptualizing them first and then bringing them to life. Often, the extent to which we can imagine things...
Intuition is a way of knowing that focuses on sensation. We call it an intuition when a person gets a gut sensation based on a previous event or a series of unidentified encounters. An experienced doctor, for example, may make an accurate diagnosis with less information than a less experienced one. This is due to their ability to detect small signs...
Students often struggle to understand how humans use memory to acquire new information. After all, remembering anything is nothing more than recalling old information gleaned from previous thoughts or experiences. However, we have to employ concepts from our memories to build new information! When learning to read, for example, one is compelled to ...
Exceedingly intelligent scholars often refuse to perceive Faith as a way of knowing, and some even argue that it isn't one of them. That’s because of the essence and nature of faith. Faith is a complete trust in something founded on spiritual conviction. Contrary to popular belief, faith does not always have to be associated with religion. This is ...
Learn about the 8 ways of knowing in TOK, such as language, sense perception, emotion, reason, imagination, intuition, memory, and faith. Find out how they work, their strengths and weaknesses, and how they interact to produce knowledge.
11 de nov. de 2020 · A chapter from a book on qualitative research in language education that explores different types and features of knowledge and how they shape research methods. It challenges the myth of scientific knowledge as the only viable type of knowledge and argues for a pluralistic view of knowledge.
- Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini
- mirhosseini@alzahra.ac.ir
- 2020
need to distinguish between the different ways that particular methods are employed in varying methodological contexts. The result was Ways of Knowing. We have designed the book to cover and reflect on what we understand to be the two main method ological traditions in contemporary social science: naturalism (which
11 de mai. de 2024 · In this chapter I touch upon aesthetic ways of knowing. Aesthetic experience, art, music, poetry, literature, mysticism and religion serve to enhance our understanding of how human beings think and act. Moral, hermeneutic, critical, Indigenous and creative discourses also inform our epistemic base.
- marc.deegan@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
This document explains four ways of knowing (sensory perception, reason, authority, and intuition) and their advantages and disadvantages. It also provides examples of how these ways of knowing are used in different fields and contexts.
23 de set. de 2022 · While emotions may be a key to self-understanding and to understanding the world, the extent to which they contribute to should be explored and knowers need to consider the nature, value, and limits of emotion as a way of knowing. Questions about … the Nature of emotion.
