teresad Posted September 17, 2009 Report Share Posted September 17, 2009 (edited) How can I find a relevant knowledge issue?I've given it allot of thought and nothing I come up with is relevant enough... And the full length draft is due on tuesday and I'm totally lost... Any suggestions or step-by-step instructions how to formulate a knowledge issue? Edited September 24, 2009 by teresad Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hedonist Posted November 2, 2009 Report Share Posted November 2, 2009 How can I find a relevant knowledge issue?I've given it allot of thought and nothing I come up with is relevant enough... And the full length draft is due on tuesday and I'm totally lost... Any suggestions or step-by-step instructions how to formulate a knowledge issue?Im choosing this topic to. Even tough I haven not yet started, I have som ideas. Im going to talk about the human bias of the way we learn, falsification. We se a pattern, we conclude that for example that red mushrooms with white dots are dangerous by observing 2 people dying after consuming. Its survival mechanism. Im not going to give you more advice, as I have to write it to... gl Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkSpider Posted November 3, 2009 Report Share Posted November 3, 2009 Well, as I'd say to anyone looking to do a good job of this essay, don't worry about a single point, otherwise you'll end up fracturing your essay, or looking like you wrote it while looking at the syllabus, rather than thinking about the topic. For this kind of essay, you really need to figure out whether you agree or disagree. Do you think people naturally gravitate to order even when there's none to be found, do you actually think existence is chaotic, or do you think that there might actually be some order to it, that people might find reassurance in glimpsing? Heck, you could try defining order, figure out if humans are orderly or not, or perhaps, whether you think humans are better off with or without structure. You could argue that life, itself, is statistically improbable in the sense that it is arguably the most ordered thing we've ever been able to discover. Or maybe you think the universe itself is always in a cyclic state of order, and that what we perceive as chaos might actually just be result of some greater design. And if at least one of those random questions confused you, then you're on the right track, because nobody can really answer alot of the questions you can get out of that quote.In your essay, I recommend finding a unifying question, discussion what the answers might mean, and how, based on available methods of discourse, we might narrow the answer down, simplify the question, or find other things that answering this question might provide insight to, perhaps even arriving at the discovery of some logically equivalent statements, which basically drive the fundamentals of disproof and belief, in philosophy. I'd suggest starting with the question "What if we were able to know what was chaos, and what was order, when we saw it, how might this be possible, and how might this be impossible, and depending on what the answer to those questions is, do we need belief to find order?" 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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