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September 9th, 2010

Today I learned:

1) TOK is found in every class- these skills are used for everyday life.

2)There are different ways of knowing and areas of knowing. •Emotion •Reason •Language •Sense Perception •Natural Sciences •Human Sciences •Mathematics •History •Ethics •The Arts
 * Ways of knowing:**
 * Areas of Knowing:**

3) TOK should be taught in high school, or in some period of time during the school education because it teaches so many skills for not only communicating but also understanding and thinking(obviously). In today's society kids are prone to forget to think of why things are how they are and why we live the way we live, or even other simple questions that we don't always think about but //should//. TOK teaches us to think of these obvious things and to REthink them. This is he key to improving our society and making changes in the world and our lives.

September 14th, 2010

Today I learned:

1) Diigo.com has the potential to expand the brain and enhance the memory. 2)The Asian/European school system is much different than in America. In China, kids 4 years old are tested very hard. It has proven to higher test results, but also to higher suicide rates. Children kill themselves from depression, too much stress and disappointment if they get something lower than an A... 3) "We are very bad at judging what we don't know" -Javier Ergueta

September 16th, 2010

Today I learned:

1) One needs to be open minded enough but skeptical as well. 2) Gullibility is dangerous but so is skeptisism. ("A Narrow Path") 3) Our beliefs change over the years, what seem crazy now may be normal knowledge in some years. Just because an idea does not fit our current theories does not mean it is false. 4) Knowledge= organized common sense? 5) There are many ways at looking at the same thing.

September 27th, 2010

Today I learned:

1) Truth is public 2) Believing something does not make it true 3) Coherence- using own reasoning/rationalism

September 29th, 2010

Today I learned:

1) Correspondence truth- checking what is truth 2) Pragmatic truth- knowledge/value of consequence, knowledge that affects us. 3) "How much does knowing aliens are existing important to us?"

October 1st, 2010

Today I learned:

1) We chose what we want to remember- some things we remember basically forever, like how to ride a bike. 2) Most of our knowledge comes from other people 3) We dismiss what isn't important/useful knowledge to us

October 5th, 2010

Today I learned:

1) There are different levels of understanding 2) Much of our knowledge is second hand 3) We don't truly understand much of anything we claim to "know"

October 7th, 2010

Today I learned:

1) Kids seem annoying when they ask so many questions because they point out our lack of understanding of the world and of things we live with and see everyday. 2) Knowledge is different from belief 3) Knowledge is "below" certainty 4) We can really never say that anything is true except if there is unarguable evidence supporting that fact. 5) Belief is a requirement for knowledge 6) Knowledge is evidence + belief 7) There are 4 ways of justification- language, perception, emotion, reason. 8) You can acquire knowledge using information you already have. 9) Belief is the subjective requirement of knowledge. 10) Truth is universally accepted. 11) Truth is not affected by belief.

October 28th, 2010

Today I learned:

1) Common sense world is full of secondary theories 2) Fundamental reality isn't really linked to what we sense/percieve 3) There is no single answer about reality

November 5th, 2010

Today I learned:

1) **Knower's Perceptive** • be engaged with issues 2) Start inside myself – extend outside myself. 3) Show myself actively engaged in argument. • show how I arrived to conlcusion 4) Examples for essay *What sources of knowledge do you consider most trustworthy? • this depends on the knower– books (common perception, depends on language, very sloppy) – internet (convenient, suspect sources, must "sit" most of the times) – personal experience (almost everything we do can lead to knowledge, most constently valuable, everything else tries to achieve this standard, no middle man) • "the weirder, the better"
 * •** need to provide examples (book personal experience, relations to school subject, etc...)

November 10th, 2010

1) Truth vs Validity– "truth is concerned with what is the case, validity with whether conclusions follow from premises; truth is a property of statements, validity of arguments." 2) Syllogism are a form of language used to reason a statement out. 3) The only situation where there is no correct answer, is a valid argument with true premises and a false argument.

November 15th 2010,

Today I learned:

1) From the statement "all swans are white", one could deduct that "every swan I will see will be white", if one experienced seeing only white swans. 2) Deduction allows to preserve truth. 3) Deduction is a mathematical way of knowing. 4) Life would be impossible if we questioned our everyday assumptions. 5) __Deduction__– reasoning from general to particular. __Induction__– reasoning from particular to general.