TOK Seminar

Sensory perception was a common idea we touched during the first and second class of TOK, we asked ourselves this intriguing question:

Is it possible to know anything, based purely on sensory perception?

and this is what i responded:

No, I believe that knowledge is not purely based on the sensory perception, due to the different perspectives of different people and the different emotions that each one has about the world that we live in, therefore the knowledge that we gain through sensory perception is biased. But I also believe that the sensory perception is necessary for our human condition and for us to “survive” in this world.

Later on during the class, we learned of descartes a philosopher which reasoned not to rely on sensory perspectives because he thought that it was incorrect and therefore he only used reason to try and gain knowledge, but according to my answer I thought that this way of seeing the world is not the most accurate because we need both our sensory perceptions and our reason to try and see the world in a scientific way and also in a more sentimental way. We need our humanity to reason and we need our reason for our humanity, or else we would just have a constant way of seeing the world and other perspectives would be vanished such as any artist that expresses its feelings through any means. 

TOK First Class

Theory Of Knowledge or TOK is a way of learning about knowledge that surrounds us and it can be applied in any subject including science. In the first class we learned what was empiricism which is the study of knowledge we experience and that it will conform one of the key words throughout this TOK course. We also learned that we rely on our senses when we experience the world but we also questioned ourselves if this is truly the right way of experiencing the world around us, because of the different perspectives and emotions that each one has of the world. The world is biased when we compare it with every individuals point of view, but then again we wouldn't be able to see the world if we didn't have our senses to permit contact with everything that surrounds us and that is what I beleive that this first TOK class has taught me.