TOK outline 1: Prompt 2 (revised)

I. What is sense perception?
-Acquisition of knowledge
-Simplest, most direct form of recognizing information.

Thesis: Sense Perception is the first way of knowing put into action in any circumstance. However, after sense perception has done its job in recognizing what is happening, other ways of knowing take over in processing the observatory nature of the data. Sense perception plays a basic role in all areas of knowing, however depending on which other ways knowing it is coupled with, the role is changed for each area.

II. Nat Sci, Soc Sci are influenced by sense perception almost holistically since these areas of knowing are mostly observational.
-cover basics of each.
-examples of observational aspect of sciences

III. Sense perception influences Arts, Ethics and Spirituality in the sense that sense perception takes in information which in turn raises questions that can only be answered or expressed through these areas of knowledge after being processed through the emotional way of knowing.
-basics of each.
-questions raised by sense perception.
-How ethics and spirituality answers questions.

IV. Math is affected by sense perception, especially in its simpler forms, within its basis in observation, but after sense perception has done its job, reasoning takes over.
-Examples of simple math and observation
-observation can only go so far until one must be able to reason
-i.e.) i observe that i dont know what X equals, i can reason and deduce until i find it.

V. History is effected by sense perception in a drastically different way due to the second hand nature of the study. History relies heavily on language to convey information that may then be observed by sense perception and once again processed by the other ways of knowing.
-Examples

VI. Conclusion
reiterate thesis and highlight the role of sense perception in each area of knowing.