Justina

Hey, could anyone advise, what could be written in the introduction part? I already stated the aim of my invstigation and presented one unknown function that was not taught in school, but I am not sure what could I insert more.

The part where we had to do experiment with our eyes closed was instructed as follows: "The subject's  finger just touching the ruler and eyes are closed. As soon as the ruler is felt to start to fall, the subject grips it."
I was thinking about the neural processing too, but I am still not sure. from one side, reaction to visual stimuli could be faster, because the information takes less time to "travel" from eyes to the brain and to hand muscle, while tactile stimulus has to "travel" from the end of the fingertips to the brain and then back to muscle. On the other hand, perhaps tactile stimuli does not involve processing in the brain, but it is a reflex similar to that of a knee..

Animistic Anaemia, on Dec 06, 2011 - 19:08, said:

What if I would write about mathematics area of knowledge, stating that almost every object or action in maths have their own word processed definitions and meanings and thee definitions are not to be interpreted for you cannot call point of inflexion to be centre of a circle, because points of inflexion are points on  a function and circle is not a function. Thus, vocabulary usage in mathematics shape what we can know because by sticking to precise definitions, mathematicians have to act according to those definitions and can acquire only that knowledge that definitions of rules allow them to do. I would present some limitations of these claims as well. But as I'm not a huge ToK fan, I am definatelly not sure whether such thinking is correct or not   Please, help me (Somehow I feel like I ask too much, sorry:))

Well, you seem to have an opinion that shaping of knowledge is not having an alternative to change a word, for exaple, if we stick to "+" is a plus in maths and there are no other interpretations, did I get that correctly? And vocabulary in maths.. Can symbols count as vocabulary?
And yeah, I was thinking about maths, but could not find out whether in this area of knowledge language shapes what people can know or not Thank you for help with choosing another AoK

Hey, i'm writing my tok essay on this topic, and I have just received my first draft with notes of what are weak and strong points of my ideas. First half of my essay where I wrote about natural science area of knowledge and vocabulary as being capable of shaping knowledge, later a bit refuting this claim by introducing sense perception and illustrations in biology, seemed to be ok for my advisor. However, in the second part, i relied on Saphir - Whorf hypothesis and discussed various languages as in the are of human science. This was somehow wrong, as it showed no relation to human sciences. My questions are: how to demonstrate the analysis of area of knowledge? Are exaples and insights enough, or something else is needed? Then, if languages are not part of human sciences (it is a way of knowing, perhaps), then what other area of knowledge could I take in order to show that vocabulary shapes knowledge, but only to some extent? I think languages would be the best to compare that due to difference in perceptions of the world, different vocabularies developed and some people cannot understand everything that comes from person with distinctive vocabulary, thus, knowledge acquisition is shaped. Perhaps art area of knowledge cou;d be used? To state that vocabulary is not used, but it conveys the meaning (using balley or paintings)? I am really lost. If someone could help, I would be indeed very very grateful.