TOK Notes

Academic Knowledge

Plato: “knowledge” had to be describe and communicated with certainty

Platonic Knowledge/ Knowledge by Description/ Propositonal Knowledge (formal statement of convincing knowledge, “knowing that”)

Test/ Conditions for Knowing:
1.) Justified- authority, empirical, rational, memory
2.) True
3.) Belief
All are necessary but not sufficient by themselves

Truth:
1.) Public- Dog has to be friendly to all (if you say “I know my dog is nice)
2.) Independent- separate from personal beliefs
3.) Eternal- But must be true now and forever

Empiricism/ Experimental
Induction:
See it
Smell it
Feel it
Touch it
Hear it
Taste it
(the senses)
(I see my watch say 7:30, the bus arrives, therefore the bus must arrive at 7:30)

Rationalism (Deduction, General Theory)/ Academic
Instructed
A prior knowledge
Knowledge that comes before
(the bus schedual says the bus arrives at 7:30, therefore the bus arrives at 7:30)