Tok Paper
Zachary Haw February 25, 2012
TOK13B Mr. Marana
Y11 TOK FORMAL PAPER
It had been a common question and debate on how people think based on the things that they know. Many people believe that things that we know are based on the things that are established on us through our culture, environment and society. According to the prompt that "We see and understand things not as they are but as we are", this statement be a common ground of discussion in this paper. While this maybe a knowledge claim, a possible counter claim would be “the certainty of the different areas of knowledge affect our sense perception and language and this in turn makes us understand things differently” and for this paper, this will be the focus.
Language has a big effect on the things that we know because it affects the way that we think and the way that we communicate with people around us. It is our passage to gain deeper knowledge and understanding of the things that we know. it is arbitrary and this is governed by rules that are set upon by language experts; such rules include vocabulary and grammar. One of the special features that can be noted is that it is dynamic and changing. This is because of the borrowing of a word from other language to the original language.
Language also has different limitations. One limitation is that it is contextual. This is because when we go to other parts of the world, we may have the same knowledge on something but the way that we know things are different. This is mainly due to the culture that we live in and important factors are essential and involved in our lives. The degree or the strength of a word when translated from one language to the other also changes and thus, will give another meaning. The context of the word would also depend on a person’s cultural background. Different cultures will then lead to untranslatable words and these are one of the hard things in language. This will not pass the faithfulness and
TOK13B Mr. Marana
Y11 TOK FORMAL PAPER
It had been a common question and debate on how people think based on the things that they know. Many people believe that things that we know are based on the things that are established on us through our culture, environment and society. According to the prompt that "We see and understand things not as they are but as we are", this statement be a common ground of discussion in this paper. While this maybe a knowledge claim, a possible counter claim would be “the certainty of the different areas of knowledge affect our sense perception and language and this in turn makes us understand things differently” and for this paper, this will be the focus.
Language has a big effect on the things that we know because it affects the way that we think and the way that we communicate with people around us. It is our passage to gain deeper knowledge and understanding of the things that we know. it is arbitrary and this is governed by rules that are set upon by language experts; such rules include vocabulary and grammar. One of the special features that can be noted is that it is dynamic and changing. This is because of the borrowing of a word from other language to the original language.
Language also has different limitations. One limitation is that it is contextual. This is because when we go to other parts of the world, we may have the same knowledge on something but the way that we know things are different. This is mainly due to the culture that we live in and important factors are essential and involved in our lives. The degree or the strength of a word when translated from one language to the other also changes and thus, will give another meaning. The context of the word would also depend on a person’s cultural background. Different cultures will then lead to untranslatable words and these are one of the hard things in language. This will not pass the faithfulness and
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