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Ways of Knowing: TOK WOK. Ways of Knowing. How do we know something? For TOK they divide it down into 4 categories Language Perception Reason Emotion. What is Language?. Consider Language is rule governed Language is intended Language is creative and open ended. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Ways of Knowing: TOKWOK
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Ways of Knowing
• How do we know something?• For TOK they divide it down into 4 categories• Language• Perception• Reason• Emotion
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What is Language?
Consider• Language is rule governed• Language is intended• Language is creative and open ended
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Language is rule governed• Quan• Koira• Kutta• Madra• Inu• Gae• Hund• Why does Dog mean dog?• Why do we visualize a dog when we say these 3
letters• These are the tribe rules
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What is Language?
Consider• Language is rule governed• Language is intended• Language is creative and open ended
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Language is intended
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Language is Intended
• You are in class, the teacher is writing on the board, you catch someone's eye and make a yawning gesture by putting you hand to your mouth
• You try to look interested when the teacher is talking you but yawn by accident
• Which of the above can be described as language
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What is Language?
Consider• Language is rule governed• Language is intended• Language is creative and open ended
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Language is Creative and open-ended• “The wise cow seeks shelter from the snow
at dusk”• Make up a wise saying that has never been
said before• 3 minutes
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Language is Creative and open-ended
• Is sign language a language?• 3 minutes• Do animals have language?• 3 minutes
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The Montillation of traxoline
• It is very important that you learn about traxoline. Traxoline is a new form of Zionter. It is montilled in Ceristanna. The Ceristanna’s gristeriate large amounts of fevon and then bracter it into quasel traxoline. Traxoline may well be one of most lukized snezlaus in the future because of our zionter lescedidge.
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Answer these questions
• What is traxoline?• Where is it montilled?• How is traxoline quaselled?• Why is it so important to know about
traxiline?
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The problem of Meaning
• We get our a lot of our knowledge in the form of language
• Lots of problems here • What is a meaningful word and what is not• 3 main theories
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Theories of Meaning
1. Definition Theory– meaning are to be found in dictionaries
2. Denotation Theory– meaning found in the world
3. Image Theory– meaning found in the mind
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Meaning of words: Definition theory
• Meaning is to be found in a dictionary• How would you describe this
• The meaning of a work and its dictionary meaning may be incorrect.
• 5 minute exercise from presenter notes here
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Meaning of words :Denotation theory
• Found in the world• i.e. France• What about abstract words like – Freedom– wisdom
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Meaning of words :Image Theory
• You have an image in you head when speaking the word it is meaningful
• Problem here is that the image in you head may be different to the next person
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“crack”
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All 3 theories have problems
• Therefore the Know How theory– You know the meaning of a word if you know how
to use it
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Language at warWarspeak
Security assistanceNeutralizeNO longer a factor
Take out
Inoperative combat personnel
Pacification
Service a targetCollateral damageFriendly fireStrategic redeploymentLiberate
Reporting guidelines
Pre emptive
Ethnic cleansing
• Arms Sales• Kill• Dead• Dead Soldiers• Bombing • Dropping bombs on a target• Bombed cities• Firing on your own troops• Retreat• Invade• Censorship• Unprovoked• Genocide
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Language to influence and persuade
1. Emotionally laden language1. Pro Life V Pro choice
2. Weasel Words3. Grammer
1. Many Villages were bombed2. We bombed many villages
4. Revealing and concealing
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Language to influence and persuade
• Terrorist/ freedom fighter• Pro life / pro choice• Genetically modified food/ Frankenstein • Free speech / hate speech• Department of War/ Department of
Defense 1947
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3 Weasel Words
• Our product can restore up to 25% of lost hair• Probably the best larger in the world• Dentifresh toothpaste helps fight tooth decay• If Timothy works hard he should do himself
justice in the final exam• Find the weasel works in the above
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4 Revealing and concealing
• I have invited an attractive blonde to the party• I have invited a cellist to the party• I have invited a marathon runner to the party• I have invited a lesbian to the party
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Language and Translation
• What would be the advantage and disadvantage if everyone in the world spoke a single common language?
• What would be gained by this and what would be lost?
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Scenario: Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
• Linguistic Determination• “Whether language actually allows you to
have new thoughts is a very controversial issue.”
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Piraha People
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Eskimos and words for snow
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Linguistic Relativity
• The belief that people who speak different languages perceive and think about the world quite differently
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2nd Language
• “Who does not know another language does not know his own”
• Goethe 1749-1832• What can you learn about your own language
by studying a second language• 10 minutes in groups
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Key points for today
• A great deal of our knowledge comes through language
• Language is – Rule governed– Intended – Creative
• Meaning of words is a matter of know how• Weasel Words• Language and translation
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WOK
•Ways of Knowing•4 Ways
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