Sunday, October 4, 2009

TOK outline 1: Prompt 2.

I. What is sense perception?
-Acquisition of knowledge
-Simplest, most direct form of recognizing information.
Thesis: Sense Perception plays the same role in all of the areas of knowing (in varying degrees) given that it is the first way of knowing put into action in any circumstance. 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.

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

III. Sense perception influences Arts, Ethics and Spirituality in the sense that sense perception takes in information and raises questions that are in turn answered by these areas of knowledge via other ways of knowing. ie) emotion.
-basics of each.
-questions raised by sense perception.

IV. Conclusion
reiterate thesis and highlight the similar role sense perception plays in each area of knowing.

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