“Ways of knowing are a check on our instinctive judgements.” To what extent do you agree with this statement?
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High School TOK Mapa Mental sobre “Ways of knowing are a check on our instinctive judgements.” To what extent do you agree with this statement?, creado por Ebba Lindgren el 08/06/2015.
"intuition is a suppression of logic due to impatience" - Rita Mae Brown
Oxford English Dictionary definition of INTUITION: the ability to
understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious
reasoning: we shall allow our intuition to guide us, a thing that one
knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than
conscious reasoning
Michael Shermer argues that humans are essentially irrational. Even
when they think they are using reason, variables such as genetic
predisposition etc. lead us to our beliefs. Even when we try and check
instinctive judgements using WOK, we cannot
Perhaps WOK do not help to verify our intuition at all but rather give us
ways to evidence preconceived ideas
RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM
The Goldilocks Effect: religious people claim that they most be right
because everything is perfectly designed for us: does this ignore the
reason of evolution?
"Cuando se adquieren conocimientos, cada área de conocimiento emplea una red de formas de conocimiento." Discuta esta afirmación haciendo referencia a dos áreas de conocimiento.