Pierre smiled, Natasha began to laugh, but Nicholas knitted his brows still more and began proving to Pierre that there was no prospect of any great change and that all the danger he spoke of existed only in his imagination. Pierre maintained the contrary, and as his mental faculties were greater and [...]
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In this letter the author states that “Umbrellaology” is a science. While others may disagree, I agree with the author. Umbrellaology may be unheard of and rare, but to classify as a science it must follow the Scientific Method and be distinguished from a pseudo-science. I think that by the Scientific rules, Umbrellaology does technically [...] In my opinion human rights are rooted in a particular culture. you are brought up by your parents and are told whats right and wrong and usually stick by these rights. It becomes engraved into your mind and you dont know what else to think and struggle to understand other peoples opinions on rights [...] Seeing as everybody has already explained deduction and induction in their own way, I’ll try to keep my explanation short (okay, fine, not) and simple; to do that, I’ll use the analogy to facilitate my explanation: Sudoku. I’m sure that everyone has tried a Sudoku puzzle before, but just in case someone hasn’t, I’ll [...] Discussion about right reason in last TOK discussion got me thinking about it. What is the reason for something? What is a right reason? WHat is an opinion? These questions were useful that made me think about it. The reason that everyone can refer to would be something that has no logical false that [...] The name Richard Dawkins sounded really familiar. I confirmed much later that he was the author of one of the books that I really liked: “The Selfish Gene”. The book talks about the controversial topics of evolution, and explains why all organisms, from a simple amoeba in the water to a complex multicellular human, [...] Thinking about brain in vats questions, it seems like its in our nature that we always doubt reality even to the point where we percieve by sense perception. It is surely a confusing question, as you do not have possible way to figure out answer, but it does really matter when it comes to [...]
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110831/full/477023a.html This isn’t exactly related to what we were talking about in the last few sessions, but this topic has popped up in my science news, so I thought I’d talk about it. The question here is: Are we really making subconscious decisions before even being aware of them, and are [...] We probably take everything in our own reality for granted. That includes the things we see every day to the very “facts” that are given to us, through media, books etc. This is because we encounter these “facts” and we take in the same things with our senses all the time, so our body [...] After skimming through the posts and comment that have appeared so far, all I can say is . . . http://www.patfullerton.com/lh/movies/finemess.html etm Be the first to like. Like Unlike Is art subjective? Or is art objective? Well, it really depends on what one thinks of the question in this blog post’s title. According to John Searle and his article “Subjectivity and Objectivity“, if something is objective, any issues can be settled by verifying it or falsifying it. Therefore, if something is subjective, it [...] That TOK journal entry probably should have been about either Nanas and Cradles presentation or some stuff about math. Since I was missing at that day and certainly don’t want to read that math stuff I think writing about procrastination should be fine. (Hopefully) Procrastination is a great habit of students. It prevents a [...] On Thursday we did a post-mortem on last week’s essay exercise, “What is art?” Today after dealing with essay cover sheets we had a brief discussion on the question, “Is art political?” Comments open until next Wednesday after lunch. Be the first to like. Like Unlike On Thursday we did some practice argumentation with an essay response outlining how one would address the question, “What Is Art?”. Today we read through part of Stanley Fish’s article, “French Theory in America”, explaining the basic ideas behind deconstructionism. Please finish reading the article on your own and then leave a comment here. [...] This week we read through Paul Graham’s essay, “Taste for Makers”. We also talked about Tastee Freeze ice cream vs. gourmet ice cream (judgments of taste vs. judgments of quality) and briefly mentioned two pairs of key terms: relative vs. absolute, and subjective vs. objective. Paul Graham and I used the word ‘taste’ to [...] We looked this week at a handout summarizing Plato’s ‘Allegory of the Cave’, and at the transcript of an online conversation among TOK teachers concerning categories, beginning with TOK’s four ‘Ways of Knowing’ but branching out from there to consider categories in general. You’re either in the cave or out of the cave. You [...] On Thursday we looked at an IBO document concerning ‘knowledge issues’ and an article by Stanley Fish concerning two recent books on the existence of God and possible explanations of evil and suffering. Friday will be spent working on oral presentations. Comments will be open until next Wednesday. In your comments, try to focus [...] Today we read a brief essay on argumentation from the University of North Carolina, and then the rest of the lesson was used to work on TOK essays, etc. For Friday’s lesson, please come to AS307 to continue working on your various essays in progress. Reminders about the TOK portion of the Gr. 12 [...] On Thursday we finished reading ‘The Meno’. You might want to comment on virtue: what it is, and/or whether it can be taught; on Socrates’s conviction that we are better off if we continue to inquire into these kinds of questions, even if we don’t arrive at definite answers; on Socrates’s method of argumentation; [...] |
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