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Knowledge Issues. ToK is about real life and real situations. ToK is about real life and real situations. ToK is about real life and real situations. Extracting a Knowledge Issue. What does ‘extraction’ mean?
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Extracting a Knowledge Issue • What does ‘extraction’ mean? • To extract means to ‘pull out’ – you might have had teeth taken out or extracted, especially if you had braces fitted and the TOK syllabus uses the word in exactly the same way. Essentially, you need to pick a Real Life Situation and pull a knowledge issue out of it. • What’s a knowledge issue? • There’s no definite, clear cut answer to this but really good knowledge issues will often come in the form of very high level questions that talk about knowledge or how knowledge works. In this sense it’s often helpful to think about Knowledge Issues as TOK questions.
2 • A knowledge issue is a question concerning knowledge where there are at least two plausible alternatives. • They can include real life situations, “I am driving in my car when I arrive at a toll booth. There are two booths. One has a long queue of traffic, the other booth is empty. Should I join the queue or go to the empty booth? How do I know?” • KI’s can also be more abstract, “How can we know if all our actions are freely chosen?” Or, “How is the knowledge we have in maths and science related to our own cultural paradigm?” • Here are examples of KI’s from various areas of knowledge. In art, “How do we know what constitutes good art?” or in ethics, “Can we use reason to justified making judgements about another culture’s ethics?” or, “When making judgements about what’s right and wrong, should we rely more on reason or emotion?” • KI’s are also relevant to ways of knowing. In language, “Is it justified to claim that our thoughts are determined by our language?” or, “In one or two areas of knowledge, how far does our language describe the world or express our feelings about it?” Considering perception, “How far is our knowledge of the world limited by our sense perception?” Or considering reason, “Is reason the most reliable route to knowledge in the natural sciences and the human sciences?”
