Nature+of+Knowledge

Day 1–Why TOK? What TOK can do for you. The ubiquity of knowledge claims. Significance for other disciplines, other learning. Significance for personal development.
 * 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–Why care about what we believe? Authenticity and self-definition. Responsibility. Possible consequences of beliefs.
 * 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–Dangers along the path to knowledge, and a partial countermeasure. Gullibility and over-scepticism. Maps and their limitations. The role of judgement.
 * 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 * Maps should not be overly accurate, otherwise, they would become outdated too quickly.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–Imputs and outputs on the knowledge pipeline. Personal and descriptive knowledge. "Knowing that.." and alternative ways of knowledge.
 * 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–Two bases of knowledge, and knowledge claims. Rationalism and empiricism. Assessing knowledge claims. Can all claims be proven true or false?
 * 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–Theories of truth, their strengths and weaknesses. Characteristics of truth: public, independent and eternal. What makes a statement true? The pragmatic, coherence, and correspondence theories of truth.
 * 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.

 Day 7–The four Ways of Knowing, and second-hand knowledge.
 * 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–Knowledge as justified true belief. You must believe it, it must be justified in the right kind of way, and it must be true.
 * 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–Review
 * We played a version of jeopardy as a form of studying in class.

Day 10–SuperQuiz. A Quia quiz on content knowledge from this unit.