{"id":1035,"date":"2012-08-21T07:42:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T13:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opengecko.com\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2012-08-21T07:43:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T13:43:35","slug":"introduction-to-tok-what-is-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/uncategorized\/introduction-to-tok-what-is-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to TOK &ndash; What is Knowledge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Key Questions:<\/h3>\n<p>1. What does it mean to know something? What is knowledge? How do we know what is real?<\/p>\n<p>2. How is Knowledge different from Belief?<\/p>\n<p>3. What do we mean by the word True?<\/p>\n<h3>&#160;<\/h3>\n<h3>Resources to help us:<\/h3>\n<p>The TOK diagram.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/intranet.wellingtoncollege.org.uk\/resource.aspx?id=239930\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How do we know what is real? \u2026<\/p>\n<h3>Are we living in The Matrix?<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WnEYHQ9dscY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Plato\u2019s Allegory of the Cave<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"413\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d2afuTvUzBQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"550\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you like the above animation (which is quite dated but very useful for explaining Plato\u2019s allegory, you might also like this shorter,more recently produced version:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"309\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E4XXItJYFKA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"550\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More information<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Allegory_of_the_Cave\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Allegory_of_the_Cave<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tamayaosbc.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/10\/74\/\">http:\/\/tamayaosbc.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/10\/74\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philosophypages.com\/hy\/2h.htm\">http:\/\/www.philosophypages.com\/hy\/2h.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/97\/Allegory_of_the_Cave_blank.png\/586px-Allegory_of_the_Cave_blank.png\" width=\"545\" height=\"714\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image \u2013 licensed under CC, details <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Allegory_of_the_Cave_blank.png\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Descartes and the Matrix<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lEr8hnvzeHU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Questions: 1. What does it mean to know something? What is knowledge? How do we know what is real? 2. How is Knowledge different from Belief? 3. What do we mean by the word True? &#160; Resources to help us: The TOK diagram. How do we know what is real? \u2026 Are we living&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[304,300,301,302,303],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-descartes","tag-introduction","tag-knowledge","tag-reality","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}