19 TOK terms Flashcards
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Knowledge
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- Familiarity or awareness of someone, something/concept
- Why humans interact, physical nature acquired through experience and education
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Belief
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- Feeling of certainty that something exists or is good/true
3
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Opinion
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- Judgment of person/thing with character merit
4
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Bias
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- Prejudice for or against one thing compared to another
5
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Perspective
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- The angle something is viewed
6
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Information
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- Facts provided or learned
7
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Evidence
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- Reasons for believing something is or is not true
8
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Claim
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- Assertion of truth, on that is disputed or in doubt
9
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Certainty
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- Firm conviction that a claim is true
10
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Doubt
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- To call into question or lack confidence
11
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Interpretation
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- Act or result of deriving meaning or significance
12
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Power
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- The ability to control or influence behaviour or thoughts of others
13
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Justification
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- Show that a belief or decision was well founded and reasonable
14
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Explanation
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- summary/statement allows people to understand different concepts
15
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Objectivity
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- Detached way of looking at the world , independent from personal feelings or biases that expect to be corroborated by a knowledge community
16
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Values
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- Persons principals or standards of behaviours
17
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Responsibility
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Fulfilling obligations in ethical areas, knowledge doesn’t conflict with or challenge individual carrying knowledge
18
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Culture
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- learned patterns of behaviour
19
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common sense
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- Series of beliefs that help organize knowledge for everyday application
20
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Mental map
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- own personal sense of reality, what is false, what is responsible
21
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Authority
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- Power to influence or command though opinion or behaviour
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Scepticism
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- Profound doubt in authenticity
23
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Nihilism
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- belief all values are baseless that nothing can be known or committed
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Gullibility
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- Tendency to believe something is real or true
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Counterclaim
- Claim made to rebut/disprove previous claim
