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ToK Essay Title Nov 2020 Title 2: Understanding, ‘what if…?’ and knowledge.

Clarifying the terms of the Q: If there’s a gap between what we know and what we can understand, are ‘what if…?’ questions the only way to bridge the gap?  In a narrow definition, such questions are hypothetical or conditional.  We are asking someone to imagine, to speculate, perhaps even to ‘think outside of the box’ as a way of making sense of knowledge. For example, as an exercise in thinking through the historical consequences of the US Black Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, we might ask ‘What if Martin Luther King Jr had not been assassinated?’…

Developing the Q: Earlier, it was indicated that the hypothetical nature of ‘what if…?’ questions could be thought of in very general terms in relation to the process of modelling, since they both engage the knower in thinking about the future. A model is a simplified representation of the world and can be in the form of a physical two or three dimensional depiction of an aspect of the material world. Models can thus be symbolic, descriptive, illustrative, ideal or even generalised…

Knowledge Questions: To what extent is imagination (substitute any other WOK here) important in helping us to make sense of the world? How far is it true to say that there are some aspects of the world that defy understanding?

Perspectives

Arts: George Orwell’s allegorical Animal Farm is a hypothetical in its broadest sense of being a projection of what could happen to a society, if power goes unchecked.  It works on two levels. On the surface, it is a story about strange events involving farm animals in a fictional corner of the UK. At the same time, the story is a satirical comment on the inherently corrupt nature of power…

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ToK Essay Nov 2020 Title 3: Centrality of humans in knowledge production & acquisition.

Clarifying the terms of the Q: …However, let’s take time to admit that human beings simply are and will continue to be the center of the ‘knowledge universe’.  At least until an extra-terrestrial species of knower comes along to prove otherwise. Of course, it hasn’t always been like this. In the short history of human civilisation, humans have been marginal in the knowledge universe.  In western Europe, for example, right up until the beginning of the Eighteenth Century, a Christian God was thought to be ‘the most important…

Developing the Q: Implicit also in this question is a related problem: the need to explore the relationship between ‘the knower’s perspective’ and ‘knowers perspectives’. A knower’s perspective is essential in the construction of personal knowledge and ‘knowers’ perspectives’ are essential to the building of shared knowledge. This distinction represents the I and the We of knowledge production/acquisition and should reinforce your grasp of how the to bridge the gap between the production of personal and shared knowledge…

Knowledge Questions: What undermines confidence or trust in knowledge that revolves around humans? How can we minimise our sense of self-importance when acquiring knowledge?

Perspectives

History: The past is uniformly dead to us and exists only in the form of primary sources or physical remnants of the past like living eye witnesses, first person documents and relics. The past also exists in the form of secondary sources based on other historians’ works, art and architecture.  This means, on the one hand, that a historian’s reconstructions, unlike a scientist’s, can’t be tested against historical reality as it doesn’t really exist anymore…

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ToK Essay Nov 2020 Title 6: Knowledge, reliability and uncertainty

Clarifying the terms of the Q: At this point, we should see that at least some reliable knowledge deals in uncertainty, ambiguity and is open to interpretation. Part of your response could explore how knowledge is actually established. Different AOKs use different methods to build knowledge. The importance of these methods should not be overestimated because they help to justify the truth of knowledge, making it more or less reliable…

Developing the Q: On a historical level, the Q implies that the uncertainty in our knowledge of the past or historical truth is dependent on human minds; that knowledge comes from an interaction between human minds and the world through various WOKs. If I see patterns in the plenitude of individual facts which constitute my theory about the past and you don’t see the same pattern, does it follow that you know the past differently…

Knowledge Questions: Is scientific knowledge more ambiguous than religious knowledge? What makes any knowledge reliable? Why is certainty so important?

Perspectives

Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Ultimately, indigenous knowledge is reliable as a force for survival. The oral tradition yields collective knowledge of what sort of plants are healing, where to find the best watering holes and when winter storms are coming. And yet such knowledge which was once so reliable can at the same time lack certainty when confronted by a changing natural and social environment…

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jackson wang; dawn of us 

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krystal; clio&cosmopolitan

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blackpink; simple

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jackson wang; 100 ways

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got7; dye

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got7; dye

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chungha;

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@inaheartbeat-film fanart! I love these guys man! This film meant so much to me so I decided to do a lil something to celebrate Australia voting yes to gay marriage! Not legalised yet but it’s a huge step!

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“No matter the situation, never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.”

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new year

there’s only 2 hours of 2017 left where i live

some say a new year is a new me

others say a new year is a fresh start

people some make new year’s resolution

but often give up after a while

i’m just terrified

will 2018 be worse than 2017?

what would happen in 2018?

uncertainty is something i hate the most

but you’ll never know until you find out 

so goodbye 2017

and hello 2018

please be good to me

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try

i try i try to be the best version of me i try to make friends i try to make people like me i try to be smart i try to work hard i try to be motivated i try to be pretty both on the inside and on the outside i try to be skinny i try to fit societal standards i try to be neat i try really hard

but everytime i try, i end up failing and everytime that happens invisible bricks pile up in my chest weighing me down till i eventually drown

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waking up

eyes open sun shining birds chirping looking forward to the adventure that lies ahead throughout the day that's how everyone dreams of waking up i wake up feeling tired what an irony sleep is theoretically supposed to give one energy but it's just the otherwise for me everytime i open my eyes i question my existence why am i still here? why must i be awake just to let another day pass? my eyelids grow heavy and i shut them once again when will i stop waking up? please let me stop.

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exams

you know, 

this is something i have never told anyone

and this is something probably no one will know until i’m gone

the day after my major exam

i went out with a friend

we watched a movie

it was nice

when i came home

i started to cry

the paper was hard

“it’s just an exam” some might say

but that meant the world to me

studying that same subject since primary one

and having to let go of it after 9 years of hard work

just because i didn’t get the results to allow me to qualify to study that subject next year

i no longer have an edge to get into the school i want

so i thought to myself

should i just leave?

having something taken away from you can be so painful

if i was gone, i wouldn’t even have to worry about next year.

i prayed and am still praying everyday

pleading to God to give me a miracle

but also treating everyday like it was my last

in about 2 weeks we shall see

where i will be

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last

the thought of 2018 scares me

with every passing year a whole string of worries will unravel

school is starting

results will be released

will 2017 be my last?