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//Day 1//
 * Unit 1: Knowledge**
 * Everyone is surrounded by knowledge claims everyday.
 * The class, Theory of Knowledge, is an extension of every class and helps to tie all of the other disciplines together.
 * What we learn and how we earn are interconnected through the "Knower".

//Day 2//
 * Our beliefs are central to our identity.
 * Does it really make sense to respect someone's beliefs even if they severely contradict your own?
 * It is important to understand the facts and information that you are writing down.

//Day 3//
 * It is a very bad thing to be overly-skeptical or too gullible.
 * Maps should not be overly accurate, otherwise, they would become outdated too quickly.
 * We must decide what information we want to believe because we don't want to be overly- skeptical or too gullible.

//Day 4//
 * There are many origins of knowledge. After we understand the origins of knowledge, we organize them into areas of knowledge.
 * The areas of knowledge encompass all of the different categorizes of expertise.
 * "Knowledge begins in doubt and wonder and is triumph of passing hurdles known as truth tests or achieved proofs of various kinds.

//Day 5//
 * There are two different, but related, bases of knowledge; rationalism and empiricism.
 * Knowledge claims do not always have definitive true/false answer, but can be proven either way.
 * The two ways of receiving knowledge are //knowledge by description// and //knowledge by acquaintance.//

//Day 6//
 * There are three characteristics for truth: 1. truth is public, 2. truth is independent, 3. truth is eternal.
 * The three tests to determine truth are: 1. correspondence test, 2. coherence test, 3. pragmatic test.
 * Truth is a very tricky word that is all over the place.

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 * The "ways of knowing" can be used together in different ways such as in sports and in history.
 * The four ways of knowing are: emotion, sense perception, reason, and language.
 * Memory, testimony (or //knowledge by authority//), and imagination all contribute to what we know, or think we know.

//Day 8://
 * Truth and belief are intersected, however that intersection depends on the person.
 * The justification for this intersection are the //ways of knowing// which are: Language, Sense Perception, Emotion, and Reason/Logic.
 * The four //ways of knowing// are very independent.

//Day 9://
 * We played a version of jeopardy as a form of studying in class.
 * **Days 8 and 9 were in the same class period.**

The "Super-quiz" for unit one has been moved back to October 12th.

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 * Unit 2: Sense Perception**
 * There are many limitations to what we understand, mainly to what we see and hear.
 * "Science may be described as the act of systematic oversimplification." -Karl Popper
 * Everyone has their own interpretations of light and sound because of the way our brains work.

//Day 2://
 * There are many assumption involved in sight and sound perception.
 * There is no sound unless there is someone there to hear it.
 * "There are not experiences because there are no experiencers." -James L. Christian

//Day 3://
 * Sense perception is about observing meaning, not recording data.
 * We only remember the facts that fit into the frame-work of our minds.
 * Our accounts of events are subjective because our minds only focus on what is meaningful.
 * Essay due on Tuesday, October 19th.

//Day 4://
 * There are two different types of sound: //physical// sound, and //experienced// sound.
 * Our brains are built to observe things through our senses.
 * If we want to perceive a larger range of data, we need to focus our attention on the different aspects of what we are trying to observe.

//Day 5://
 * Common-sense realism is what we think exists, really does exist.
 * Scientific realism says that the universe is composed of what we scientifically proved it to be composed of.
 * Phenomenalism says that we can't know anything about anything, so why should we worry about.

//Day 6//:
 * There are three limitations to our perception of things: "(1) we may misinterpret what we see, (2) we may fail to notice something, (3) we may misremember what we have seen."
 * Our sense of touch takes priority over all of our other senses.
 * "Knowledge requires something less than knowledge."


 * Unit 3: Reason**

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 * Reason is just another word for Argument.
 * We organize our perception/images of the world in a simpler way so that our brains can comprehend them.
 * Reason/Arguments are war.

//Day 2://
 * Reason = Logic
 * There is a clear distinction between //truth// and //validity//. Truth concerns the what is the case, and validity is whether or not conclusions follow a the premises.
 * Venn Diagrams can be a useful tool in finding the truth and validity in syllogisms.

//Day 3://
 * There are two different types of reasoning: inductive reason and deductive reasoning. Inductive reasoning goes from the specific to the general, while deductive reasoning goes from the general to the specific.
 * Knowledge was invented by the Greeks about 2,000 years ago.
 * There are five criteria for distinguishing a good generalization from a bad generalization.

//Day 4://
 * There are about twenty different types of fallacy.
 * A fallacy is an argument, regardless of if it is appealing or not, but it is not logically valid.

//Day 5://
 * There are many different kinds of fallacies.
 * A fallacy is much like a bias in that, for the most part, it is wrong.
 * There is no wrong use of logic.

//Day 6://
 * A fallacy is "a mistake in reasoning, especially a common kind of mistake".
 * Having too many fallacies in one's argument can lead to a lack of consistency in their argument.
 * An argument is "a set of propositions in which some assumptions provide the grounds for holding a conclusion.

//Day 7://
 * Groupthink bias occurs when a groups rushes to a decision(s) to please the rest of the group.
 * A cognitive bias occurs when there is a flaw in a person's judgment which is caused by some kind of outside factor.
 * Informal logic is what we apply in our daily lives.


 * Unit 4:Language**

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