Biddle TOK Test Review
at 4:32 pm on Friday, 3 October 2008
Hey TOK,
Here is your review for your Perception Test on Tuesday. It has two parts: 24 matching/objective questions, for which you may NOT use a “cheat sheet,” and an essay, for which you may have your 3×5 card with information.
Objective:
1. empiricism
2. idealism
3. realism
4. reality
5. metaphysics
6. perception
7. visual illusions
8. selectivity of perception
9. appearance vs. reality
10. eyewitness testimony
11. confirmation
12. coherence
13. independent testimony
14. Cogito ergo sum
15. tabula rasa
16. radical doubt
17. Esse est precipi
18. synesthesia
19. a priori
20. a posteriori
21. analytic and synthetic propositions
22. dialectic
23. dualism
24. Occam’s razor
Answer the following questions in a well-structured and well-thought out essay. Make sure you assert your opinions by supporting them with logic and evidence. You should provide “real life” examples to elaborate your points.
1) Describe and explain perception as a way of knowing. What sort of knowledge does perception produce? How does it fit in with our working definition of knowledge as “justified true belief”? What degree of certainty can we expect from knowing through our senses?
2) What problems of knowing – that is, what limitations of knowing are we prone to by using our senses – do we encounter in perception? You may approach this through specific problems which illustrate general issues OR you may discuss general issues and use specific examples.
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