Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Essay 1
- “The knower’s perspective is essential in the pursuit of knowledge.” To what extent do you agree?
- AOKs
- History
- Empirical evidence produced by the Historians
- Reason
- Deductive reasoning is a basic form of valid reasoning. Deductive reasoning, or
deduction, starts out with a general statement, or hypothesis, and examines the possibilities to
reach a specific, logical conclusion (University of California)
- Reason
- Confirmation bias (a tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one's
preconceptions, leading to statistical errors) while at the same time ignoring or dismissing opinions - no
matter how valid - that threaten our world view
- Emotion
- Mathematics
- "Language of the universe"
- Refering to universalise which could be argued that it could also mean
that regardless of perspective knowledge can be gained from
mathematics
- How does the perspective of the world changes with mathematics?
- Knowledge Question
- To what extent does the knowledge gained in history and mathematics revolve around the perspective of the knower?
- Claim 1 (history)
- Due to personal bias the pursuit of knowledge will be focused on a predetermined perspective.
- CounterClaim
- Objectivity is important while gaining knowledge in History
- Salem Witch Trials
- 1950s Communist Scare in the US
- Claim 2 (maths)
- Gaining knowledge in maths is an objective process.
- Little to no emotion (more reason and logic)
- CounterClaim
- Mathematics rely on the perspective of certain learners/mathematicians
since their perspective will dictate what they do next.
- Whether it is to disprove a theory or improve a theory