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    Key terms in TOK

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    Terms
    • Bias: prejudice, unfairness, favoritism
    • Identity: how a person, group or nation sees themselves in relation to other
    people, groups, nations ideas & the world
    • Contingent: only true under certain conditions & dependent on other things
    • Culture: the shared ideas, beliefs, customs of a community or a society
    • Perception: an awareness of something in and through the mind
    • Innate: something we are born with
    • A priori: purely by reason
    • Theorem: a principle or statement that can be demonstrated
    Terms
    • Truth: in accord with fact or reality, or faithfulness to a standard
    • Belief: confidence that something exists or is true
    • Expert: a person with specialised knowledge in a particular subject
    • Certainty: the quality of having no doubt
    • Illusion of explanatory depth: the illusion that you understand something in
    detail when you do not
    • Tribalism: the behaviours and attitudes that arise out of loyalty to a social
    group
    • Proof: conclusive evidence
    Terms
    • Objectivity: looking at the world in a detached way that focuses on facts, largely
    independent of a personal perspective, and that expects to be corroborated by a
    knowledge community
    • Subjectivity: looking at the world from a personal point of view, under the influence
    of feelings and emotions
    • Scholasticism: a method of learning characteristic of the Middle Ages, and based on
    logic and traditional beliefs about what is true
    • Scepticism: an attitude of doubt; a method of obtaining knowledge through
    systematic doubt and continual testing
    • Values: standards of behaviour; regard for things of important moral worth
    • Authority: the moral or legal right to make decisions in, and take responsibility for, a
    particular field of knowledge or activity; the word can also be used to denote a
    person or group who has that authority
    Terms
    • Polymath: a person with expertise in several different fields of knowledge
    • Knowledge claim: a statement in which we claim to know something
    • Hypothesis: a proposed explanation or starting point based on limited evidence that
    can be tested in an investigation
    • Evidence: signs that you can see, hear, experience or read to support the truth of
    an assertion
    • Relativity: recognising that knowledge claims are dependent on contextual factors
    of frames of reference
    • Relativism: the belief that what might be true or right for one person or group need
    not be true or right for another person or group, that all truths are of equal value
    • Responsibility: a duty or moral obligation
    Terms
    • Absolutism: belief in absolute truth and absolute cultutal, religious, political
    and moral standards against which all other views can be judged
    • Conviction: a firmly held belief
    • Mythology: a collection of traditional stories usually belonging to a particular
    religious or cultural tradition
    • Worldview: an overarching theory about the nature of the universe and human
    beings’ place in it
    • Ethical: conforming to accepted moral standards
    • Moral: following one’s personal principles of what is right or wrong
    • Linguistic determinism: the idea that language and its structures determine
    human knowledge, thought and thought processes
    Task

    • Relook at your chosen prompt and


    framework, with reference to this list of
    terms, identify 3-4 terms that you’d likely
    be using in your arguments.

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