TOK Essay Planning Document

DUE ON November 11th Identify Chosen Title/Question Write Question The traditional TOK diagram indicates four ways of knowing. Propose the inclusion of a fifth way of knowing selected from intuition, memory, or imagination, and explore knowledge issues it may raise in two areas of knowledge. Name: Ainslie Moors

Identify key words and phrases in the question Knowledge issues, areas of knowledge, traditional, inclusion What are the contestable concepts in the question? Identify any ambiguous term in the question Imagination: The faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses: "a vivid imagination". Memory: The power of the mind to remember things: "the brain regions responsible for memory". Intuition: A thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning. Identify Action term(s) in the question

What assumption(s) are implied in the title?

Rephrase the title Put the question in your own words

Identify the Knowledge Issue(s) that you see within this question To what extent can we consider emotion a way of knowing if it is influenced by preconceived connotations due to our memory? Is it ethical to judge a completely new situation with the influence of memories from previous experiences? Consider Ways of Knowing How might you use the various WOKs to discuss this question & knowledge issue? Look back through the reading and your notes for specific examples.

Identify possible examples (evidence) that you might use to demonstrate multiple perspectives on this issue. What claims can you make on this issue?

Identify counter-claims that can be used to provide depth to your argument.

Identify ways you can connect with the issue as a knower

Identify assumption(s) and implication(s) in your dealing with the KI and/or prompt