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Theory of Knowledge Vocabulary
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12th Grade
06/21/2019

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Language
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a way of communicating knowledge, formulating ideas, storage of knowledge or a medium of thought
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sense perception
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the process of gaining knowledge through things such as the five senses sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing.

without scenes, we would not know what the outside world is.

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Emotion
Definition
emotions have psychological effects, we know things emotionally with more certainty than by any other way of knowing something
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Imagination
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A mental representation of something it is key to creativity and problem solving
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Reason
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much like logic, it goes beyond immediate experiences of our own scenes it is the deduction of validated conclusions from given beginnings.
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Faith
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religious or secular sense as a synonym of trust
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Intuition
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Immediate knowledge or cognition without any evidence or justification.
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Memory
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the knowledge that is stored and known or remember it is one of the most important ways of knowing
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Personal knowledge
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how a person feels or what they are thinking about
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Procedural knowledge 
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the knowledge found through life experience and knowing what to do such as skills, methods and standards of judgement.
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Shared Knowledge
Definition
methods, skills, and standards of knowledge developed by communities of similar qualified practitioners and experts.
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Areas of knowledge 
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a specific place of knowledge e.g the eight areas of knowledge are: mathematics, the natural sciences, the human sciences, the arts, history, ethics, religious knowledge systems, and indigenous knowledge systems
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Ways of knowledge
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tools that help us answer "how do we know" and "how do I know"
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Real-life situations
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events that happen in real life that come from personal experiences or from outside that offer opportunity for analysis of TOK.
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Knowledge claims
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saying things as I know or we know are two types of knowledge claims
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Knowledge questions
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questions that have many possible answers and no specific term
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Knowledge concept
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words or concepts that evaluate the way knowledge is constructed.
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Evidence 
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the details that support a knowledge claim such as data, evidence detected by scenes is called empirical.
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Justification
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it provides practical evidence and its grounds it takes many forms.
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Perspective and Bias
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the points of view that people hold can cloud the perspectives of seeing the truth this is bias meanwhile perspective is the point of view a myriad of factors such as age, gender, personality and etc
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Validity
Definition
statements or conclusions backed up by logic, it does not always have to be true.
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Reliability
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when a claim is consistently justifiable e.g dependability and consistency.
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Authority and Credibility
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what we believe comes from different sources than our direct experiences, things like the internet or authority figures are used to make us trust these sources.
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Paradigms and Worldviews
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main values systems that influence what we believe they are sometimes presented in opposing pairs ( conservative vs liberals), ( capital vs socialism), ( Christians vs atheists)
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