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Knowledge Claims & Knowledge Issues. Information / Facts Opinion Belief Knowledge Truth Certainty. ToK. “ Opinion  has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes” Voltaire

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  1. Knowledge Claims & Knowledge Issues • Information / Facts • Opinion • Belief • Knowledge • Truth • Certainty ToK

  2. “Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes” Voltaire • “There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.” Alfred Korzybski • “No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.” Einstein • “Our thoughts of today create our life of tomorrow. As we think, so we are.” Buddha ToK

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  6. ToK • “If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; • if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.” • Mark Twain

  7. Reasons we use to support knowledge claims…. • Faith • Memory • Authority • Intuition • Revelation • Sense perception • Logic • Self-awareness • Common knowledge • Instinct • Value judgement ToK

  8. Knowledge claims can be explicit: • 1 + 1 = 2 • There are nine planets in our solar system • The sky is blue • Murder is wrong • George Bush won the 2000 US Pres. Election • etc …. ToK Possible knowledge issues arising from these?

  9. Knowledge claims can be implicit… ToK What are some of the possible knowledge claims and knowledge issues arising from this?

  10. What are some of the possible knowledge claims and knowledge issues arising from this? ToK

  11. “This dewdrop world It may be a dewdrop, And yet … and yet …” ToK What are some possible knowledge claims and knowledge issues arising from this?

  12. This term: • Practical Ethics • History • Mathematics • Faith • Truth • Presentations • Essay ToK

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